New Research Finds That Ancient Carbon in Rocks Releases as Much Carbon Dioxide as the World’s Volcanoes

ENN
Oct 6, 2023, 1:50 pm278 pts
A new study led by the University of Oxford has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO2 sink, indicating instead that this can also act as a large CO2 source, rivalling that of volcanoes.

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