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Rivers help lock carbon from fires into oceans for thousands of years

The extent to which rivers transport burned Carbon to Oceans - where it can be stored for tens of millennia - is revealed in new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Credit: Tim QuineThe study, published in Nature Communications, calculates how much burned carbon is being flushed out by rivers and locked up in the oceans. Oceans store a surprising amount of carbon from burned vegetation, for example as a result of...

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