“Unknown viruses and bacteria resistant to antibiotics and nuclear waste buried by the Cold War. The matter trapped in the Arctic is a polluting and dangerous bomb even more than the coronavirus, ready to be released with the melting of the ice caused by the rise in temperatures.” This was revealed in a dossier mentioned in the Press. If the Earth overheats, the cryosphere thaws and collapses. Scientists warn that the environmental risks to living species will be devastating.
There is another effect that agitates climatologists, and it is the thawing of the permafrost, the floor of earth and rocks that glues the earth’s surface and remains at zero degrees or less: it contains biological, chemical and radioactive materials seized by dozens or even hundreds of thousands of years and ready to be released. A study on Arctic permafrost demonstrates the danger we face by causing permafrost to melt. When the components trapped in the ice re-enter the environment, “they have the potential to disrupt the ecosystem, reduce the fauna of the Arctic ice sheet and endanger human health.”
The thawing Arctic could cause the spread of nuclear waste, unknown viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Inside the sub-zero arctic ice sheet lurks radioactive waste from Cold War submarines and nuclear reactors. The Russian government has indeed launched a reclamation plan, but studies today reveal that the area contains radioactive substances such as cesium and plutonium among the underwater sediments. In addition, more than 100 microorganisms in Siberian permafrost are resistant to antibiotics. “It is possible that these mix with the melt water and create new strains of bacteria other than existing that resist known antidotes.”
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