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.
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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