Could microbes, locked in Arctic ice for millennia, unleash a . . . - UNEP
In the unusually hot summer of 2016, a bacterium that causes anthrax killed more than 2,500 reindeer in Siberia’s remote Yamal Peninsula, according to one study. Normally locked deep in a layer of permanently frozen land, or permafrost, the once-dormant pathogen eventually spread to humans . . .
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