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Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find

Experiments by University of Leeds researchers, published in Earth's Future, have shown that thawing of permafrost makes it between 25 and 100 times more permeable, allowing more climate change forcing gases to escape.

Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find
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Experiments by University of Leeds researchers, published in Earth's Future, have shown that thawing of permafrost makes it between 25 and 100 times more permeable, allowing more climate change forcing gases to escape.

Originally published at Phys.org

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