[Vision2020] 12-10-24: NOAA’s 2024 Arctic Report Card: Arctic tundra becoming source of carbon dioxide emissions

[Ted Moffett]

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/arctic-tundra-becoming-source-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions

Excerpt from website above:

After storing carbon dioxide in frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic
tundra is being transformed by frequent wildfires into an overall source of
carbon to the atmosphere, which is already absorbing record levels of
heat-trapping fossil fuel pollution.

The transition of the Arctic from a carbon sink to a carbon source is one
of the dramatic changes in the Arctic that are documented in NOAA’s 2024
Arctic Report Card <https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/report-card-2024/>.
Climatic shifts are forcing plants, wildlife and the people that depend on
them to rapidly adapt to a warmer, wetter and less certain world.

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