Permafrost
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Earth facing dire sea level rise — up to 20m — even if climate goals metTime is running out to prevent sea levels from rising to dangerous levels, which could displace hundreds of millions of people living in coastal areas, a report warns.EnvironmentNov 17, 2023
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‘Zombie’ virus revived after 50,000 years trapped in Siberian permafrostThe study's authors discovered 13 never-before-seen viruses that have been lying dormant, frozen in ice, over tens of thousands of years.ScienceNov 25, 2022
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57,000-year-old wolf puppy found frozen in Canada’s permafrostGold miners found the wolf in permafrost, where it was held '100 per cent intact' for millennia.TrendingDec 22, 2020
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Mass lake drainage in Alaskan tundra another sign of climate change: researchersDuring the winter of 2017 and into the summer 2018, the entire region experienced unusually warm temperatures and exceptionally heavy precipitation consistent with what climate change models predict across the Arctic.CanadaDec 2, 2020
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Scientists discover sea ‘boiling’ with methane in Siberia"No one has ever recorded anything like this before," the expedition leader said in a statement.TrendingOct 10, 2019
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What is permafrost and what does it mean for Canada as it thawsPermafrost in the Arctic is degrading unexpectedly fast, leading to further fears from scientists about a looming climate emergency.EnvironmentJun 19, 2019
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Permafrost in Canadian Arctic thawing 70 years earlier than predicted: study"What we saw was amazing," said Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a professor of geophysics. "It’s an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years."EnvironmentJun 18, 2019
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Permafrost in Arctic is melting so fast it’s swallowing science equipmentMerritt Turetsky, a University of Guelph biologist, warns the rapid melt could dramatically increase the amount of greenhouse gases released from ancient plants and animals frozen within the tundra.CanadaMay 2, 2019
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Scientists find perfectly preserved carcass of ancient horse in SiberiaRussian scientists have found the carcass of an ancient foal perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost.ScienceAug 23, 2018
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