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This critical ecosystem helped keep climate change in check. Now it’s making things worse. from Vox - All RSS feed.

This critical ecosystem helped keep climate change in check. Now it’s making things worse.

The frigid Arctic tundra has soaked up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for millennia, an essential balancer for our planet’s climate. Now, it appears to be emitting more heat-trapping gasses than it absorbs as global temperatures rise. The switch threatens to amplify warming even further and shows that climate change isn’t always a gradual process, […]