Scientists collected up to 40,000-year-old microbes from the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in central Alaska and simulated increasingly warmer summers that may penetrate these deep, frozen ...
The Cool Down on MSN
Experts make astonishing revelation after waking organisms trapped in ice for millennia: 'These are not dead samples'
The scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder extracted the permafrost and found the microbes within had " reawakened " and may pose a significant environmental risk, according to Discover ...
Permafrost is the frozen mix of soil, ice, and rocks that occupies nearly a quarter of the land in the northern hemisphere.
Climate change has become one of the major concerns around the world. Although this trend has decreased over time, experts ...
As rising temperatures cause permafrost to melt beneath our feet, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is looking to understand the process and impact of that melting. To achieve that goal, the ...
Tom Douglas of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory drills into subsurface permafrost under Alaska to study microbe warming. Shared by Tristan Caro Deep below the surface of some of ...
Hosted on MSN
After 40,000 Years in Ice, Microbes Are Coming Back to Life — Experts Think It’s a Warning Sign
Microbes and other tiny living organisms have extraordinary ways to survive even in extreme weather conditions. While some can live even without sunlight, others withstand extremely cold conditions ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback