Carbon release from collapsing coastal permafrost in Arctic Siberia

Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 12:30 in Earth & Climate

In this week's issue of Nature a study lead by Stockholm University, with collaborators from Russia, US, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Spain and Denmark, show that an ancient and large carbon pool held in a less-studied form of permafrost ("Yedoma") is thaw-released along the ~ 7000 kilometer desolate coast of northernmost Siberian Arctic. 

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