River buries permafrost carbon at sea
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 5 August, 2015
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As temperatures rise, some of the organic carbon stored in Arctic permafrost meets an unexpected fate -- burial at sea. As many as 2.2 million metric tons of organic carbon per year are swept along by a single river system into Arctic Ocean sediment, according to a new study....