Glaciers hold almost 70% of the world’s freshwater. Scientists issue urgent warning after discovering major threat in the ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the ...

Due to Arctic warming, fossilized microbes buried in Arctic ice and soil may wake up. The fear is that these pathogens will ...

Indeed, Arctic ecosystems may be disproportionately ... As glacier retreat occurs, terrestrial habitats are exposed, and the bacteria present have key roles in the ensuing development of soil ...

YEKATERINBURG, November 21. /TASS/. Russian researchers have discovered that some bacteria from ancient Arctic permafrost can survive even up to 20 million years in an inactive state under ...

THERE have been several studies on the interrelation of nose and skin bacteria in unisolated groups of human beings, 1–3 but little has been written about variations in the micro-organisms of ...

TASS/. Scientists at the Siberian Federal University proved bioplastics may be used in sub-Arctic latitudes without harming the environment, as soil bacteria can decompose bioplastics membranes.

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or ...