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New technique for measuring greenhouse gas production from thawing permafrost
Published: 26 March 2020
A research team led by 91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 91社区鈥檚 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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