Marine Biological Laboratory: Will Climate Warming Trigger Carbon Release From Tundra? Massive Study Provides Long-Awaited Answers
April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, April 18 (TNSres) -- The Marine Biological Laboratory issued the following news:
The cold, treeless tundra landscape that encircles the Earth just below the Arctic ice caps - including much of Alaska and Canada - is known to contain huge stores of carbon in its frozen soils. But a big unknown in global change biology has been whether a warming climate will cause this carbon to be released as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, creating a positive feedback lo . . .
The cold, treeless tundra landscape that encircles the Earth just below the Arctic ice caps - including much of Alaska and Canada - is known to contain huge stores of carbon in its frozen soils. But a big unknown in global change biology has been whether a warming climate will cause this carbon to be released as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, creating a positive feedback lo . . .