carbon dioxide release Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:47:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Huge Amounts of CO2 Stored in Forest Soil Could Be Triggered by Warming, Study Suggests https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-forest-soil-warming-study-20120613/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-forest-soil-warming-study-20120613/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24951 A new study performed by UC Irvine researchers and their colleagues reveals that the carbon stored in U.S. forest soils could be easily released in the future if temperatures will continue to rise. By analyzing forest soil in Wisconsin and North Carolina and heating it by 10 to 20 degrees, the researchers found out that […]

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