Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing by 35 million cubic feet each year

Whether you’re a John Carpenter fan or a biology enthusiast, you shouldn’t need much convincing to know that the melting of subterranean permafrost at the poles is not a good thing. Last year, scientists gave us one more thing to lose sleep over, reviving a 48,500-year-old ‘zombie virus’ unearthed from Arctic permafrost – and it was not the first time. It’s one more sting in the tail of climate change – the threat of ancient diseases that have lain frozen and dormant for millennia.

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