Ancient microbes, unusual ice structures, mammoth bones - there’s a lot happening below the surface in the Fairbanks Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility. The underground laboratory, operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, is kept at a constant 27 degrees Fahrenheit. Environmental science researcher Dr. Andrew Balser leads a tour of the facility and discusses the research taking place there.
Got to see this from outside the tunnel, but I sadly did not get to go inside. It’s the stuff of legends!
This 39,000 year old baby female, named Yuki, was found with blood still in her veins, frozen in the permafrost on a Siberian island. It is the first successful extraction of blood from an extinct animal. A team of Russian and Japanese scientists is hoping to clone one sometime in the future.
Since y'all apparently don’t like reading all that much, I’m going to keep Tumblr posts short and image driven while the longer articles will be posted on our new Medium page. (we got three articles: one on why Sweatcoins sucks, another on bee free honey and lastly one on the permafrost)
Have a happy Earth Day and let us continue fighting against climate change!!
