Decadal increases in carbon uptake offset by respiratory losses across northern permafrost ecosystems

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02057-4

The future of carbon dynamics in the northern high latitudes is uncertain yet represents an important potential feedback under climate change. This study uses a comprehensive observational dataset to show an increasing carbon sink in non-permafrost systems; in permafrost systems uptake was offset by loss.