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No comment on the viruses part, but the article was not misleading regarding the thawing of permafrost.
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Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years, most of which decomposes into carbon dioxide and methane, further enhancing the greenhouse effect,” the study’s authors wrote.
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Methane Seeps have been recorded in Alaska and the Yukon. Mass wasting via retrogressive thaw slumps (likely driven by increased precipitation) are also heavy issues in western Arctic, contributing to the change in the Arctic carbon and geomorphologic cycle. Check it out, it’s fascinating stuff. Antoni Lewkowicz is a great scholarly author headlining some of the research behind RTS.