Warmer, shorter winters have turned permafrost regions from carbon sink to source

Scientists aren't sure exactly when the switch occurred, because until recently winter monitoring has been limited.

By Yereth Rosen November 4, 2019
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Permafrost holds within it more carbon than has ever been produced by humans. And for a long time, that carbon was safely locked in the deep freeze of Arctic winters.

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