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The organic matter stored in frozen Arctic soils could release significant quantities of carbon dioxide and methane on thawing. Now, laboratory experiments show that re-wetting of previously thawed permafrost could increase nitrous oxide production by 20-fold.

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Figure 1: High daily nitrous oxide emissions from Arctic, temperate and tropical soils.

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  1. Hermann F. Jungkunst is at the Institute of Geography, Landscape Ecology, University of Gottingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 5, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany. hjungku@gwdg.de,
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Jungkunst, H. Arctic thaw.Nature Geosci 3, 306–307 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo851

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