Carbon monoxide trapped in ice cores reveals unexpected trends regarding burning biomass

Friday, December 3, 2010 - 12:31 in Earth & Climate

Scientists studying a column of Antarctic ice spanning 650 years have found evidence for fluctuations in biomass burning -- the consumption of wood, peat and other materials in wildfires, cooking fires and communal fires -- in the Southern Hemisphere.

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