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14 May 2015, Climate News Network: Permafrost thaw’s runaway effect on carbon release. Arctic warming is causing organic carbon deep-frozen in the soil for millennia to be released rapidly into the air as CO₂, with potentially catastrophic impacts on climate. An international team of scientists has settled one puzzle of the Arctic permafrost and confirmed one long-standing fear: the vast amounts of carbon now preserved in the frozen soils could one day all get back into the atmosphere. Read More here