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Controlled Colorado River Flooding Released Stored Greenhouse Gases
2016-06-28 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eurasia Review: aboratory, Johnson Space Center, Wikipe The 2014 experimental controlled pulse of water to the Colorado River Delta has revealed an interesting twist on how large dry watercourses may respond to short-term flooding events: the release of stored greenhouse gases. The findings were reported at the Goldschmidt conference in Yokohama, Japan. As presenter Dr Thomas Bianchi said, "We saw a rapid release of greenhouse gases (CH4 and CO2) from the riverbed sediments to the floodwaters. These gases...
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