Greenhouse gas impact of hydroelectric reservoirs downgraded
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 14:00
in Earth & Climate
An international team of scientists has amassed the largest data set to date on greenhouse gas emissions from hydroelectric reservoirs. Their analysis, published today in the online version of Nature Geoscience, posits that these human-made systems emit about 1/6 of the carbon dioxide and methane previously attributed to them.