Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out of a horror movie.
From incredibly preserved extinct megafauna like the woolly rhino, to the 40,000-year-old remains of a giant wolf, and bacteria over 750,000 years old.
Not all of these things are dead.
Centuries-old moss was able to spring back to life in the warmth of the laboratory. So too, incredibly, were tiny 42,000-year-old roundworms.
This will end well…
The 1st article on the environment page explains further :-
We Breached The 1.5 °C Threshold Over 10 Years Ago, Study Warns
Chemical records written in sea sponge skeletons suggest we passed the critical threshold of 1.5 °C of warming as early as 2010. If true, this places us close to – or even at – about 2 °C today.
Being ahead of schedule would explain why such extreme climate consequences have been walloping us far sooner than anticipated. Last year’s huge leaps in temperatures left researchers stunned and scrambling for theories to account for some mysterious missing factor to explain things.
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-breached-the-1-5-c-threshold-over-10-years-ago-study-warns
