Scientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 ... - CNN
WEBMar 9, 2023 · CNN — Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of...
Siberia’s ice is melting, revealing its past and endangering its future
WEBJan 3, 2024 · The rapid change is causing the frozen ground known as permafrost that coats about two-thirds of Russia to thaw for the first time in ages.
Arctic permafrost is thawing rapidly. It affects us all | CNN
WEBNov 12, 2022 · Thawing permafrost — the long-frozen layer of soil that has underpinned the Arctic tundra and boreal forests of Alaska, Canada and Russia for millennia — is upending the lives of people such as...
Thawing permafrost threatens Alaska Native villages : NPR
WEBApr 3, 2024 · Alaska Native communities have been raising the alarm for years, warning that thawing permafrost and erosion threaten their ability to stay on the land where their families have lived for...
A nematode survived 46,000 years in permafrost : NPR
WEBJul 30, 2023 · A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still walked the Earth.
With Arctic permafrost thawing, Pentagon frets over deadly …
WEBNov 18, 2023 · WASHINGTON — Deadly pathogens lying dormant in centuries-old Arctic permafrost could become the latest threat from global climate change. The potential release of the pathogens has seized the...
A Homer scientist is bringing changes in Arctic permafrost into …
WEBApr 7, 2023 · On a recent virtual tour of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks’ Goldstream Valley, senior scientist Tom Douglas welcomed more …
Driven by climate change, thawing permafrost is radically ... - PBS
WEBApr 13, 2022 · It’s evidence that permafrost, the long-frozen soil below the surface, is thawing. That’s bad news for the communities built above it – and for the global climate.
If you’re not thinking about the climate impacts of thawing permafrost …
WEBJan 30, 2022 · Earth’s permafrost is thawing, and indigenous communities in the Arctic and scientists around the world say it’s high time this alarming loss of ground ice receives the global attention – and...
Scientists dissect 3,500-year-old bear discovered in Siberian permafrost
WEBFeb 23, 2023 · The female bear was found by reindeer herders in 2020 jutting out of the permafrost on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, part of the New Siberian archipelago around 2,900 miles east of Moscow.
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