Permafrost serves as an enormous carbon reservoir, containing about 1,500 billion tons of organic carbon. To put this into ...

The elder Zimov first figured out that permafrost stores far more carbon than scientists once thought. Some of it is now escaping as temperatures rise. Sergey Zimov, an ecologist by training ...

Photosynthesising microbes in soil may increase their activity as temperatures rise, offsetting some of the carbon emissions ...

Furthermore, tropical and boreal ecosystems, potential sinks or sources of CO 2, and polar ecosystems prone to loss of organic carbon from melting permafrost should receive more attention.

Svalbard is the fastest warming place in the world, and even within the Arctic. Leaving as little trace as possible is a ...

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