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Ozone Recovery Weakens Antarctic Carbon Uptake, Flipping Tundra to CO2 Source

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Ozone recovery Antarctic carbon sink: a 2026 field study published in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters found that healing ozone may weaken Antarctic tundra carbon absorption by up to 80 percent and can briefly flip the tundra into a net CO2 source -- a Montreal Protocol climate impact absent from current carbon models.

First report: Extra CO2 boosted Wisconsin forest productivity 39%, but ozone cut the gain — timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 9d