News Headline

A groggy climate giant: subsea permafrost is still waking up after 12,000 years

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2020-12-22

In the far north, the swelling Arctic Ocean inundated vast swaths of coastal tundra and steppe ecosystems. Though the ocean water was only a few degrees above freezing, it started to thaw the permafrost beneath it, exposing billions of tons of organic matter to microbial breakdown.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-12-groggy-climate-giant-subsea-permafrost.html