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The US Department of Energy is embarking on a $100-million research program to investigate what will happen to the organic carbon locked up in frozen soils of the far northern permafrost when they thaw in the rapidly warming climate. The program is designed to develop a fine-scale model that can simulate how soil microbes, plants and groundwater interact on the scale of centimetres to tens of metres, to control the amount of organic carbon stored underground in the permafrost zone. [Source: Nature News]
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