Newsletter Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Ancient zombie viruses in melting Siberian permafrost could cause new pandemic, scientists warn The effects of disturbing millennia-old viruses could be ‘calamitous’, scientists warn.
Impacts Image by Florence D. from Pixabay 'Zombie viruses': Ancient diseases climate change will bring back Worsening climate change has seen permafrost slowly begin to roll back, the thawing ice now giving way to everything it had kept hidden.
Newsletter www.eenews.net 'Zombie' viruses: Can they escape the thawing Arctic? The Arctic possesses frozen pathogens from past contagions, raising fears that climate change could unleash them as melting permafrost reveals the corpses of their victims. Here's what we know.