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Experts say global emissions need to be cut now to limit the release of powerful greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost. Permafrost’s polluting potential begins when the damper, warmer conditions of thawing ground jumpstart microbes to produce carbon dioxide or methane as they feast on decomposing organic matter in boggy, once-hard soil. ‘Abrupt thaw’ The increasing frequency and severity of Arctic …
