Slow-freezing Alaska soil driving surge in carbon dioxide emissions

Northern tundra's autumn carbon dioxide emissions increased 70% between 1975 and 2015, researchers find, blaming warming temperatures

Alaska's soils are taking far longer to freeze over as winter approaches than in previous decades, resulting in a surge in carbon dioxide emissions that could portend a much faster rate of global warming than scientists had previously estimated, according to new research.

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