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The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change
Description: The newly active permafrost is packed with old stuff: dead plants, dead animals, mosses buried and reburied by dust and snow. This matter, long protected from decomposition by the cold, is finally rotting, and releasing gases into the atmosphere that could quicken the rate of global warming. This matter is also full of pathogens: bacteria and viruses long immobilized by the frost. Many of these pathogens may be able to survive a gentle thaw-and if they do, researchers warn, they could reinfect humanity. [Source: The Atlantic]
URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/the-zombie-diseases-of-climate-change/544274/
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Source: The Atlantic
Publish Date: 11/6/2017
Reading Level: Basic
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