Is Arctic Permafrost the "Sleeping … Climate Change?

Monday, June 24, 2013 - 19:50 in Earth & Climate

Arctic permafrost soils contain more accumulated carbon than all the human fossil-fuel emissions since 1850 combined. Warming permafrost, poised to release its own gases into the atmosphere, could be the "sleeping giant" of climate change.

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