Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

The sudden collapse of thawing soils in the Arctic might double the warming from greenhouse gases released from tundra, warn Merritt R. Turetsky and colleagues. The sudden collapse of thawing soils in the Arctic might double the warming from greenhouse gases released from tundra, warn Merritt R. Tur...

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Published in:Nature (London) Vol. 569; no. 7754; pp. 32 - 34
Main Authors: Turetsky, Merritt R., Abbott, Benjamin W., Jones, Miriam C., Walter Anthony, Katey, Olefeldt, David, Schuur, Edward A. G., Koven, Charles, McGuire, A. David, Grosse, Guido, Kuhry, Peter, Hugelius, Gustaf, Lawrence, David M., Gibson, Carolyn, Sannel, A. Britta K.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.05.2019
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:
704/106/694
704/172
706/648/453
Animals
Arctic Regions
Carbon
Carbon - analysis
Carbon content
Carbon dioxide
Carbon Sequestration
Climate change
Comment
Emissions
Environmental aspects
Environmental Monitoring
Forecasts and trends
Frozen ground
Grasslands
Greenhouse Effect - statistics & numerical data
Greenhouse gases
Greenhouses
Ice Cover
Natural history
Oil and gas exploration
Oil exploration
Organic carbon
Permafrost
Permafrost - chemistry
Plant growth
Plants - metabolism
Research - trends
Satellites
Soil erosion
Soils
Surface-ice melting
Thawing
Time Factors
Wetlands
Arctic Regions
Arctic
Canada
Alaska
United States > US
Arctic region
Policy
Climate change
Environmental sciences
ISSN:0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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Summary:The sudden collapse of thawing soils in the Arctic might double the warming from greenhouse gases released from tundra, warn Merritt R. Turetsky and colleagues. The sudden collapse of thawing soils in the Arctic might double the warming from greenhouse gases released from tundra, warn Merritt R. Turetsky and colleagues. Soil erosion due to permafrost thaw in the Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-019-01313-4