Carbon uptake in Tibetan Plateau soil may offset melting permafrost carbon release

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 08:03 in Earth & Climate

(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has found that carbon uptake in the Tibetan Plateau may actually offset the carbon that is released as permafrost melts. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team describes soil readings they analyzed from the region and what their findings suggest about carbon release in cold parts of the world.

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