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Tropical soil artificially heated to temperatures in 2100 leaked 55 pc more CO2: Study – Firstpost
Warming over land alone – which covers just 30 percent of the surface – has been double the global average, compared to pre-industrial levels.
Agence France-PresseAug 13, 2020 10:01:50 IST
Tropical forest soil warmed in experiments to levels consistent with end-of-century temperature projections released 55 percent more CO2 than control plots, exposing a previously underestimated source of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported Wednesday.
Before humanity began loading the atmosphere with carbon pollution by burning fossil fuels, the input and outflow of CO2 into soil one key element in Earth’s complex carbon cycle remained …
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