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Permafrost is not your garden-variety soil. Beneath the frozen depths of the Arctic, the icy soil stores an estimated 1.5 trillion tons of carbon - including methane and other hydrocarbons. These greenhouse gases are locked up in frozen ground that covers 24 percent of the exposed land in the high latitudes of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, as well as Antarctica. [Source: NASA Earth Observatory News]
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