The deepest shaft built on permafrost in Yakutsk, Siberia, more than 150 years ago, was drilled down and reopened for researchers and tourists, who wish to go down through never-melting, frozen soil layers as deep...
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Carbon Dioxide levels up - its bad - Methane is worse. Recently scientist reported that humans have not reduced thier carbon footprint on this planet. If anything, we are increasing. This will lead to a relase of a...
"A soil sample from the Martian arctic dug up by the Phoenix probe appears to be too firmly clumped to deliver any particles into the spacecraft's main test instrument, mission experts said.Apparently no testable...
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"Global levels of methane had been roughly stable for almost a decade. Rising levels in the Arctic could mean that some of the methane stored away in permafrost is being released, which would have major climatic...
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"In the permafrost bottom of the 200-meter-deep sea, enormous stores of gas hydrates lie dormant in mighty frozen layers of sediment. The carbon content of the ice-and-methane mixture here is estimated at 540 billion tons. "This submarine hydrate was considered stable until...
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"OSLO, Norway - Refrigeration units on Friday begin cooling a new doomsday vault dug into an already frigid Arctic mountainside to protect the world's seeds in case of a global catastrophe. Norway blasted...
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Weather control, usually the domain of James Bond villains*, has taken a big step forward as China claims success in triggering snowfall from clouds seeded with silver iodide."China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly...
" WASHINGTON - Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb. Methane a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon...
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"BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said...
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"Global warming might be significantly worse than expected during the next century because the melting of carbon-rich permafrost in Siberia could expel hundreds of billions of tons of extra greenhouse gases into...
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Submarine sonar measurements indicate that ice thickness has decreased by 4 feet over the last 40 years. Satellite measurements indicate that the area of ice cover has decreased by 7% per decade over the last 30 years.
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