Monday, October 13, 2025

After 40k Years, Microbes Awakening from Thawing Permafrost

Ancient life has been resurrected from the bowels of a military tunnel that penetrates the Alaskan permafrost. Some of the microbes thawed from these long-frozen soils have been trapped for 40,000 years. Now, they've been reawakened.

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CU Boulder researchers have awakened microbes trapped in Arctic permafrost for tens of thousands of years--and found that they spring back to life when thawed. Their activity could offer new insights into climate feedbacks and Earth's ancient ecosystems. Read more: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1 ...

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-- CU Boulder Geological Sciences (@cubouldearth.bsky.social) Oct 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM

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Earth's insurance for when the human parasites do too much damage?

#1 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-10-14 07:23 AM

And the WHO recently announced more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Glad that Dummkopf Trumpf withdrew the US from WHO on 21 Jan 2025: www.who.int

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-14 11:43 AM

Coral reefs are fcnked now, too. Just got back from swimming in Okinawa, beautiful coral there, but it's going away www.nature.com

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-10-14 06:49 PM

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