Permafrost may not be the ticking “carbon bomb” scientists once thought

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By Karl MathiesenApr 13, 2015, 6:13 pm96 pts
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The ‘carbon bomb’ stored in the thawing Arctic permafrost may be released in a slow leak as global warming takes hold, rather than an eruption, according to new research. Scientists at the…

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