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Bacteria release climate-damaging carbon from thawing permafrost
Along the thaw gradient, surface water is a rusty red, caused by microbes releasing iron and carbon compounds Monique Patzner
Drill core of the active layer of the peatland Monique Patzner Press release issued: 10 December 2020
A new study based on scientific sampling of a rusty carbon sink at a permafrost peatland at Sweden has revealed that iron minerals fail to trap organic carbon, a vast source of CO2 and methane not included in global warming forecasts.
The study, conducted by researchers from the Universities of Tübingen and Bristol conducted their investigation site at Stordalen mire, Abisko, Sweden appears in Nature Communications today [10 December].