The Arctic’s thawing permafrost is releasing a shocking amount of dangerous gases
This “abrupt thaw” affects 5 percent of Arctic permafrost, but it could double the amount of warming it contributes. In the black spruce forests along the Tanana River in central Alaska, scientists Miriam Jones and Merritt Turetsky watched for years as trees tipped, leaned, and toppled into boggy …
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