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Antarctica is one of the few places on Earth with permafrost similar to areas on Mars.
Source: https://www.rawstory.com/there-could-be-alien-life-on-mars-but-will-our-rovers-be-able-to-find-it/
Furthermore, a disconcerting concept is the possibility of “zombie” viruses, which have been preserved in permafrost or other frozen environments for centuries, being released as a result of climate change.
Source: https://voiceofsikkim.com/who-warns-about-the-potentially-alarming-and-deadlier-disease-x/
“I remember a permafrost engineer teaching us about how we grew up in our traditional values, how even those ideas are rooted in science,” she said.
Other changes researchers observed are that squirrels are delaying the timing and duration of heat production during hibernation in response to slower freezing of the permafrost.
Plan seeks to address needs related to increased flooding, wildfires, melting permafrost and other climate-relate risks.
Source: https://azeritimes.com/2023/06/30/canada-launches-first-ever-national-climate-adaptation-strategy/
Southeast Alaska is a global hotspot for another type of landslide: those by thaw of high-altitude permafrost, melt of glaciers that buttress bases of mountains or a combination of those forces.
Those tipping points are the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the mass die-off of warm-water coral reefs, the thawing of Arctic permafrost, and the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre circulation.
Source: http://redgreenandblue.org/2023/12/10/verge-five-climate-tipping-points-business-usual/
Wedges of ice, features of the ice-rich permafrost that underlies Utqiagvik, are exposed on Aug. 2 on an eroding beach bluff.