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New technique for measuring greenhouse gas production from thawing permafrost

Published: 26 March 2020

A research team led by 91˿Ƶ geochemistPeter Douglashas used a new method for measuring the rate at which methane is produced by microbes breaking down thawing permafrost.“There is a lot of concern about methane being released from permafrost, but we don’t know how available carbon that has been frozen for thousands of years is to microbes,” says Douglas, an assistant professor in 91˿Ƶ’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

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