Thawing world Rising temperatures will release significant amounts of carbon into the atmosphere from thawing permafrost, according to one of the first studies to quantify how much that carbon will contribute to global warming. A combination of global climate simulations suggests that frozen Arctic lands will go from being a net absorber to a net emitter of carbon sometime next decade, researchers from Boulder, Colo.,
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