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Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

The Arctic permafrost is 1,000 years old. As it thaws, scientists worry what it might unleash In one troubling case, dozens of people were sickened − and thousands of reindeer were killed − ...