A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals

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By Patrick Greenfield, The GuardianJan 26, 2025, 9:00 am82 ptsTrending
A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north. For millennia, Arctic land ecosystems have acted as a deep-freeze for the planet’s carbon,…

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