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Greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater higher than thought
2015-12-21 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Do not underestimate the babbling brook. When it comes to greenhouse gases, these bucolic water bodies have the potential to create a lot of hot air. According to a new analysis in the journal Ecological Monographs, by researchers at the University of WisconsinMadison and colleagues, the worlds rivers and streams pump about 10 times more methane into our atmosphere than scientists estimated in previous studies. The new study also found that human activity seems to drive which streams are the...
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