Arctic Permafrost

Arctic Permafrost,
Woods Hole Research Center,

WHRC works in places where great stores of terrestrial carbon are at risk, threatening the global climate system and human well-being, the Arctic is such a place.

Locked within the ancient frozen soils, known as permafrost, is more carbon than has been emitted through fossil fuel combustion to date, and more, in fact than is in the atmosphere, including natural and human contributions.