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Ponder - ice melt extinction

Photo by Artem Zhukov on Unsplash

Take a moment to ponder this:
What if when the ice melts, previously extinct species return? Whilst others become extinct.


The melting ice is reducing habitats around the globe putting many species at risk of extinction, but it is also creating them. Places where ice once clung, now provide additional land for colonisation. Ice also hides many secrets within its frozen depths; seeds and pollen kept in suspension for millennia. As the ice melts, could these species come back and start colonising in amongst modern species?


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Ponder - ice melt extinction

Photo by Artem Zhukov on Unsplash Take a moment to ponder this: What if when the ice melts, previously extinct species return? Whilst other...