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  • Professor of Anthropology and Biochemistry and the Micheal G. DeGroote Chair in Genetic Anthropology, McMaster University
A hydraulic monitor thaws permafrost with high-pressure water in the Klondike goldfields, Yukon — mining exposures that researchers used to access ancient ground ice and fossil records. (Duane Froese)

Earth’s deep memory is thawing with the Arctic permafrost, degrading records of our ancient world

Duane Froese, University of Alberta; Hendrik Poinar, McMaster University; Scott L. Cocker, Stockholm University, and Tyler J. Murchie, McMaster University

Permafrost holds an extraordinary molecular record of ancient life — and we are only now learning to read it, just as warming begins to erase it.

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