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Kostas KonstantinidisScientists who studied the Alaskan tundra have warned that global warming could make microbes which live in the soil release more greenhouse gases. The permafrost soils on the northern latitude make up around 16 percent of the Earth's surface, but harbor about half of our planet's total carbon beneath its surface. As such, disruptions to this area have the potential to worsen climate change, the authors of the study published in the journal PNAS explained. Kostas T. Konstantinidis, co-author of the study and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (School of Civil Engineering and School of Biological Sciences), commented in a statement: "We saw that microbial communities respond quite rapidly—within four or five years—to even modest levels of warming." The study was also featured in Alaska Native News on July 17, 2019.
