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News Release 14-085
Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release
New research contradicts long-held assumption about the role of thermokarst lakes
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Thermokarst lakes occur as permafrost thaws and creates surface depressions that fill with melted freshwater.
Credit: Katey Walter Anthony / University of Alaska Fairbanks
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