Permafrost: A Ticking Carbon Time Bomb - The Moscow Times
Carbon stores, long locked in the permafrost, are now seeping out. Thawing permafrost is a carbon "time bomb", scientists have warned.
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Carbon stores, long locked in the permafrost, are now seeping out. Thawing permafrost is a carbon "time bomb", scientists have warned.
ABISKO, Oct 25 — Sheltered by snow-spattered mountains, the Stordalen mire is a flat, marshy plateau, pockmarked with muddy puddles. A whiff of rotten eggs wafts through the fresh air. Here in the Arctic in Sweden’s far north, about 10 kilometres (six miles) east of the tiny town of...
Here in the Arctic in Sweden’s far north, global warming is happening three times faster than in the rest of the world.
Between carbon dioxide and methane, permafrost contains some 1,700 billion tons of organic carbon, almost twice the amount of carbon already present in the atmosphere.