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Warm Arctic Waters Emit Carbon, Though Region Carbon Sink Overall

2013-12-04 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: The Arctic Ocean has has long been known as a carbon sink, but a new study suggests that while the frigid waters do store large quantities of carbon, parts of the ocean also emit atmospheric carbon dioxide. Researchers from MIT constructed a model to simulate the effect of sea ice loss in the Arctic, finding that as the region loses its ice, it is becoming more of a carbon sink, taking on about one additional megaton of carbon each year between 1996 and 2007. But while the Arctic is taking on...

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