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New study suggests northern tundra shifting from carbon sink to carbon source
For millennia, the frozen lands of the far Northern Hemisphere have been a huge reservoir of carbon. The permafrost soils that characterize the Arctic and sub-Arctic tundra cover roughly 8 percent of the global land surface but hold half of Earth’s underground organic carbon and twice as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere. Arctic tundra stores carbon during the summer and releases some of it during the winter.
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it's also squishier in the summer.