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New technique for measuring greenhouse gas production from thawing permafrost
Published: 26 March 2020
A research team led by 捆绑SM社区 geochemist听Peter Douglas听has used a new method for measuring the rate at which methane is produced by microbes breaking down thawing permafrost.听鈥淭here is a lot of concern about methane being released from permafrost, but we don鈥檛 know how available carbon that has been frozen for thousands of years is to microbes,鈥 says Douglas, an assistant professor in 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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