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A federal report says that the polar regions emit planet-warming pollution
A report by US’ National Snow and Ice Data Center has revealed that Greenland’s melting ice sheet is the second-largest contributor to sea-level rise. The report added that iceseals are adapting to climate change by eating warm-water fish. “With lower levels of climate Change, you get lower levels of emissions from permafrost,” it further said.
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The woolly mammoth has been extinct for a long time, and a 3D reconstruction of the genome might revive it
Researchers said they have found DNA from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, one of the oldest known living mammals, which they believe is the earliest evidence of human DNA. The DNA was preserved in skin samples taken from Siberian permafrost. “To be able to do all these specific things in… woolly mammoth is exciting,” said Erez…