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LiveScience.com: As our planet warms, a world locked in permafrost will come alive, and researchers worry the tiny inhabitants of the frozen soil will start churning out greenhouse gases, magnifying global warming.
"Nobody has looked at what happens to microbes when the permafrost thaws," said Janet Jansson, a senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. She led a study that recorded what happened when chunks of Alaskan permafrost thawed for the first time in 1,200 years.
"We......
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Frozen Microscopic Worlds Come Alive as Earth Warms
Posted by LiveScience.com: Wynne Parry on November 6th, 2011
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