Greenland’s Thawing Ancient Garbage Heaps Are Releasing a 4,500-Year Bacterial Record
Scattered across Greenland's coastline are heaps of ancient garbage, bones, shells, animal waste, and broken objects, frozen solid for thousands of years. The objects inside have told archaeologists a great deal about who lived there. It turns out the bacteria have stories too. A study published in Frontiers in Microbiology…
bubmagJune 17, 2026