Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet
There's three times as much carbon still frozen in permafrost than what's now in the air, but all over the Arctic those heat-trapping gases are escaping into the atmosphere
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Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet
As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They're bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas made from decomposing plants an...