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Earth’s deep memory is thawing with the Arctic permafrost, degrading records of our ancient world

A hydraulic monitor thaws permafrost with high-pressure water in the Klondike goldfields, Yukon — mining exposures that researchers used to access ancient ground ice and fossil records. (Duane Froese), CC BY-NC-ND

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