permafrost
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Managing heat from a data center built on permafrost requires specialized engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
These RNA sequences are the oldest ever recovered and come from mammoth tissue preserved in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2025
Canada and Russia, where large amounts of ice and permafrost are melting, are losing the most fresh water.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
As far back as 2003, the village of Pontresina spent millions on a protective dam to shore up the thawing permafrost in the mountain above.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
It was that warmer temperatures all around the world were melting the permafrost in the Arctic, and tiny microbes were feasting on the newly unfrozen plant material in the ground.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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