NASA: The Sleeping Giant in Arctic Permafrost (2013)

First published at 20:27 UTC on June 2nd, 2017.
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Arctic permafrost soils contain more accumulated carbon than all the human fossil-fuel emissions since 1850 combined. Warming Arctic permafrost, poised to release its own gases into the atmosphere, could be the "sleeping giant" of climate …

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CategoryScience & Technology
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