Conversation

❝ “Permafrost soil contains more mercury than all the other soil on the planet, plus all the oceans, plus the atmosphere, so there’s an enormous amount of mercury sitting in these frozen soils where climate change is happening faster than the rest of the world. It has that sense of a bomb that’s going to go off." → https://www.hcn.org/articles/alaskas-permafrost-is-thawing-releasing-a-concerning-amount-of-mercury/