Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
There could be anything underneath all the permafrost, including new biodiversity which we haven't catalogued yet. NPR ran a story[0] where Russian animals such as reindeer infected with Anthrax had thawed out, and caused outbreaks where people had to get preventative treatments against it. As a future threat model, what if there's new viruses or bacterium contained under previously frozen earth for which modern medicine isn't prepared for?<p>[0]<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/03/488400947/anthrax-outbreak-in-russia-thought-to-be-result-of-thawing-permafrost" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/03/4884009...</a>