The impact of thawing permafrost on the nitrogen cycle is uncertain. Laboratory experiments using permafrost cores from northeast Greenland reveal that rewetting of thawed permafrost increases nitrous oxide production by over 20-fold.
Read the paper "High nitrous oxide production from thawing permafrost" in Nature Geoscience.
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