A flooded Siberian cemetery
Credit: Emile Ducke/The New York Times
YAKUTSK, Russia — The lab assistant reached into the freezer and lifted out a football-size object in a tattered plastic grocery bag, unwrapping its muddy covering and placing it on a wooden table. It was the severed head of a wolf.
The animal, with bared teeth and mottled fur, appeared ready to lunge. But it had been glowering for some 32,000 years — preserved in the permafrost, 65 feet underground in Yakutia in northeastern Siberia.
As the Arctic, including much of Siberia, warms at least twice as fast as the rest of the world, the permafrost — permanently frozen ground — is thawing. Oddities like the wolf’s head have been emerging more frequently in a land already known for spitting out frozen woolly mammoths whole.
The thawing of the permafrost — along with other changes triggered by global warming — is reshaping this incredibly remote region sometimes called the Kingdom of Winter. It is one […]
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I can relate to these people because we have had so much rain for the winter and spring months that it made my trellis which held up my large squash plants fall over, as it sank down because of the extra rain. My car which was sitting for about a year sunk down so far that I thought had a flat tire, but when I jacked it up the tire was fine, it was just the excess rain that made it sink.