Permafrost
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As Earth warms, now because of extra CO2 we put in the atmosphere, ice will melt, and CO2 and methane will be released by warming ocean and melting
permafrost
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Methane is also beginning to escape from the
permafrost.
We exhumed six bodies who had died of Spanish flu and were buried in the
permafrost
and we hoped the frozen ground would preserve the body and the virus.
Fortunately, we find millions of their remains strewn across the
permafrost
buried deep in Siberia and Alaska, and we can actually go up there and actually take them out.
Not surprising then again that a mammoth preserved in the
permafrost
will have something on the order of 50 percent of its DNA being mammoth, whereas something like the Columbian mammoth, living in a temperature and buried in a temperate environment over its laying-in will only have 3 to 10 percent endogenous.
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