An old grave with a human femur exposed and bought to the surface by permafrost melt and frost heave
An old grave with a human femur exposed and bought to the surface by permafrost melt and frost heave. at Recherchefjorden (77°31’n 14°36’e), Van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Climate change is accelerating permafrost melt and causing huge damage across the Arctic. It is also one of the feedback loops that exascerbate climate change, as the permafrost locks away billions of tonnes of methane (a greenhouse gas 23 times more potent than C02), as the permafrost melts this methane is released into the atmosphere with porentially disastrous consequences.
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Photo credit: © Ashley Cooper / Alamy / Afripics
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