Long-Term carbon storage in Ganges basin may portend global warming worsening
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 10:31
in Earth & Climate
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists have found that carbon is stored in the soils and sediments of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin for a surprisingly long time, making it likely that global warming could destabilize the pool of carbon there and in similar places on Earth, potentially increasing the rate of CO2 release into the atmosphere.