2026-05-02 · gigatonnes carbon in permafrost

Permafrost locks twice atmospheric carbon

Frozen soil in the Arctic stores ancient carbon. Thaw could rewrite the methane budget.

How to read: 1 cell = 1.7 gigatonnes carbon in permafrost (0.1% of permafrost carbon stock). 1,000 cells total.

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