Thawing permafrost exposes old pathogens-and new hosts
Briefly

The Arctic-that remote, largely undisturbed, 5.5 million square miles of frozen terrain-is heating up fast.In fact, it's warming nearly four times quicker than the rest of the world, with disastrous consequences for the region and its inhabitants.Many of these impacts you probably know from nature documentaries: ice caps melting, sea levels rising, and polar bears losing their homes.
Read at Ars Technica
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