Study finds Amazon trees a major source of methane emissions

Green Car Congress
By mmillikinDec 22, 2017, 10:05 am118 pts
A study by an international team of researchers has found that trees growing in the Amazon river floodplains emit 15.1 ± 1.8 to 21.2 ± 2.5 teragrams (million metric tons) of methane (CH4) per year. This is in addition to the 20.5 ± 5.3 teragrams a year emitted regionally from other sources. Their…

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