Arctic Carbon a Potential Wild Card in Climate Change Scenarios
The Arctic Ocean receives about 10 percent of Earth's river water and with it some 25 teragrams [28 million tons] per year of dissolved organic carbon that had been held in far northern bogs and other soils. Now an international team of U.S. and German…
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