Green Blog: A Carbon Culprit: Rivers and Streams

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 10:00 in Earth & Climate

Streams and rivers in the United States alone release almost 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year -- equal to a car burning 40 billion gallons of gasoline, "enough to drive back and forth to the moon 3.4 million times," a study says.

Read the whole article on NY Times Science

More from NY Times Science

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net