thawing

Ancient life has been resurrected from the bowels of a military tunnel that penetrates the Alaskan permafrost.Some of the microbes thawed from these long-frozen soils have been trapped for 40,000 years. Now, they've been…

It may not feel like it yet, but the housing market's Ice Age is finally thawing.Would-be buyers and sellers have found themselves stuck over the past couple of years. For-sale signs stood frozen in…

Ancient microbes frozen for thousands of years in Siberia's permafrost are thawing, researchers have warned - and could pose a 'disastrous' threat to the human race.Virologist Jean-Michel Claverie has warned that as global warming…