As the Artic warms permafrost (carbon frozen in time) is melting, what we once thought to be stable ground.

As the permafrost melts with warming temperatures sinkholes are on the rise which release methane gas.

What happens when methane gas is released into our atmosphere?

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/3AOUzLz.

In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate.

Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the implications of these dramatic developments in the Arctic? Scientists and local communities alike are struggling to grasp the scale of the methane threat and what it means for our climate future.

Chapters.
00:00 Introduction.
02:22 Giant Sinkhole in Siberia.
05:54 Evidence of Methane in Craters.
09:02 Alaskan Lake Bubbling.
14:47 Effects of Permafrost Thaw on Climate.
17:26 Native Alaskan Solutions to Permafrost.
21:37 Organic Matter Impacted by Permafrost.
24:44 Greenhouse Gasses Emitted from Permafrost Thaw.
33:37 Fossil Methane in Earth’s Crust.
42:19 Tipping Point: Arctic Regions are Sinking.
47:47 How Communities are Finding Solutions.
50:15 Conclusion.

(Premieres Wednesday, February 2 at 9PM ET on PBS.)

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The Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA) has hit its’ lowest water level in recorded history.

This Lake is what survives from Lake Bonneville.

There are many global factors which are now being affected by the shrinking of The Great Salt Lake, including Arsenic poisoning in the Valley.

The drug, molnupiravir, could be the first oral antiviral medication for covid-19.

The largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere is shrinking rapidly. Left alone, the lake’s footprint would span 2100 square miles — more than three times the area of Houston. An analysis published last year showed that water siphoned off the rivers that feed the natural wonder had reduced its level by 11 feet, depleting the lake area by more than half.

The trouble trickles up the food chain. The Utah Geological Survey openly expressed its fear Thursday that the shrinking lake levels threaten to kill microbialites — underwater reef-like mounds that help feed brine flies, brine shrimp and, thus, the 338 species of birds that visit each year.

Great Salt Lake is also known as America’s Dead Sea — owing to a likeness to its much smaller Middle Eastern counterpart — but scientists worry the moniker could soon take new meaning.

Utah is in a drought. Utah is in the need of water. Yes I do live here; for the past 51 yrs. Snowfall has decreased and rainfall is scarce! I’ve started collecting water in gallon jugs, taking less showers. Peeps have been collecting rain in barrels. Utah has not been hit so hard. Wanna go boating, river rafting, kayaking — better check if there is enough water to support your sport.

Utah (ABC4) – Utah’s water supply is not looking good this year. It’s looking so bad that in March, Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox issued an executive order, declaring a state of emergency in Utah.

Welcome to 2021! We left 2020 with COVID-19, yet it continues into the new year; on top of it the virus produced a much more contagious asshole!!!

The evolved strain of COVID-19, known as B.1.1.7, has shown itself in the USA as well as other countries.

Two male members of the Colorado National Guard tested positive for the new strain — referred to as B.1.1.7 or VUI-202012/01 — and neither reported international travel. At least one of the two men is in his 20s.

“The individual is a male in his 20s with no history of travel. The Department is working with the CDC on this investigation,” Florida Department of Health officials announced Thursday.

I didn’t get my 2nd Moderna Vaccine because how sick others became after theirs — nausea, fatigue, headaches for days, lymph nodes the size of a rock that fits in your hand, increased heart rate… Recently a Utah woman died 4 days after her 2nd vaccine-her heart, liver and kidneys failed. Less then a yr ago I read several studies on hospitalized COVID patients — how their kidneys and liver were failing. I read a recent study on how post COVID individuals are now having heart issues. Another study shows how COVID attacks the heart and why such individuals are now having heart issues. In December 2020, 13 individuals died after getting vaccinated (probably more since then). There is a real connection between COVID and organ failure!!!! I wish I kept links of all the information I read. Be happy to find them again. We don’t even know the long term affects of the vaccine — are the vaccinated going to experience long term health issues as well? Take your chances with a vaccine, or not.

A Utah woman in her 30s died four days after receiving the coronavirus vaccine.

Kassidi Kurill, 39, was healthy and happy and “had more energy” than others, according to a KUTV report. Then, four days after she received her second dose of the coronavirus vaccine, she suddenly died.

“She came in early and said her heart was racing and she felt like she [needed] to get to the emergency room,” her family said. Her father, Alfred Hawley, said he woke up to her asking for help.

Many post COVID victims have heart issues. This is why:

A new study has discovered how the SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks and damages the heart, answering a long-standing question about mysterious heart conditions following COVID-19 infection. The results could have large implications on how to effectively treat severe infections and develop new therapies for preventing long-term damage.

Throughout the pandemic, people with severe COVID-19 infection have often displayed symptoms of heart distress. Those with underlying heart conditions are at a greater risk of severe illness if they catch it, and reports of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia) in previously healthy patients with acute COVID-19 have been common.

However, exactly why this happens has eluded scientists until now. Researchers have been unsure whether the heart symptoms are a result of severe inflammation as the body reacts to the infection, or whether the virus particles themselves invade and attack heart cells.

Individuals who had COVID are experiencing fatigue, shortness of breath, headaches, memory loss, heart palpations, they can’t think clearly…, more time will tell us the affects of being a COVID-19 victim.

“I really am disabled now, so it really does take a toll.”

Iya Iya.

Is that Trump in your picture profile, Roger? I don’t think I can take this post seriously for various reasons.

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Trent Condellone.

He’s going to chip the farmland, wait and see.

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