News from Around the World

New Scientist reports more worrying global warming news. Russian researchers have discovered an area of peat bog the size of France and Germany (so big then) that is normally engulfed in permafrost is lacking it’s permafrost. The ice melting could result in the release of billions of tonnes of normally contained methane gasses into the atmosphere. That, my friend, is bad for the environment. Apparently this ecological time bomb has been slowly going off over the last three to four years.