The potential dangers due to the melting of ice

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The potential dangers due to the melting of ice

The scientists' premise is that a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered by permanently frozen terrain, permafrost. Due to global warming, melting releases organic matter frozen for up to one million years. Part of this organic matter also consists of reanimated cellular microbes and viruses that have remained dormant since prehistoric times. According to researchers at the French National Center for Scientific Research, it is a mistake t…