"There could be this giant mercury bomb in the Arctic waiting to explode," study co-author Josh Wes said in a statement. Mercury has been trapped in the Arctic for thousands of years. Natural air ...

The Arctic is known to be melting at an alarming rate. The region is losing its icy shield by 12% per decade due to excessive ...

In fact, some computer model runs show that the storm could intensify far faster than what would be required for the tempest to be known as a weather 'bomb ... between the Arctic air mass ...

Just when Brits had gotten used to wearing sunglasses, it looks like it's time to bring out the bobble hats again, according ...

Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these ...

While deployed, the aircraft operated as the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron out of RAF Fairford ... and the Middle East. The Arctic region and airspace near NATO members have seen escalating ...

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Permafrost covers about 25% of the exposed land surface in the Northern Hemisphere, crucial in locking away carbon and toxic metals like mercury.