Carbon dioxide biggest player in thawing permafrost

Monday, June 13, 2016 - 10:01 in Earth & Climate

Carbon dioxide emissions from dry and oxygen-rich environments are likely to play a much greater role in controlling future rates of climate change caused by permafrost thaw than rates of methane release from oxygen-poor wetlands in the Arctic, according to research by a scientist at the University of Exeter.

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