60% More Greenhouse Gases Trapped in Permafrost Than Previously Thought

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In the spirit of an ongoing series of new discoveries which could be titled “whoops, things are a lot worse than we thought" Yahoo News/AFP is reporting that according to new research coming out to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and published in Nature Geoscience, the stock of organic carbon stored in Arctic permafrost is 60% higher than previous estimates.

One-Sixth of Carbon Currently in Atmosphere Stored in N. American Permafrost
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