Sunlight Stimulates Release of Climate-Warming Gas From Melting Arctic Permafrost

Monday, February 11, 2013 - 16:00 in Earth & Climate

Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and, if exposed to the surface when long-frozen soils melt and collapse, can release climate-warming carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere much faster than previously thought.

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