Soil microbes define dangerous rates of climate change

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 12:31 in Earth & Climate

Scientists have studied a potentially significant feedback to rapid climate change. Runaway reactions in peatlands could give off large amount of carbon and considerable heat. Researchers are now investigating possible links between this reaction and peatland wildfires, such as those in Russia earlier this year.

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