The Arctic stores vast amounts of soil carbon, much of which is likely to be lost to the atmosphere as the climate warms. A clever new analytical approach suggests that even carbon that has been stored for hundreds to thousands of years is vulnerable to warming.
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Conant, R. Old Arctic carbon stability. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 437–438 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0483-z
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