• Guess words' meaning (Climate change reveals ancient artefac
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  • Well above the treeline in Norway’s highest mountains, ancient fields of ice are "shrinking" as Earth’s climate warms.
    becoming smaller, reducing
  • Extreme cold is one reliable way to keep artefacts relatively fresh for a few thousand years, but once thawed out, these materials experience "degradation" relatively swiftly.
    decline in quality
  • Unless they’re protected from the microorganisms that cause "decay", they tend not to last long.
    damage
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