The ocean plays a major role in reducing the impact of the changing climate. About a quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO2) released due to human activities has been
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Permafrost thawing, but role of microbes a big unknown
More research in the unknown role of microbes in thaw lakes is urgently needed, a new review paper by NESSC-scientists underlines. Permafrost areas across the globe are slowly thawing
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Labwork, fieldwork, or just grabbing a coffee with your fellow scientists – all the usual, scientific activities have come to a halt at NESSC due to the current corona-measures.
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Young soils in the East Siberian Arctic provide the majority of released greenhouse gases, a new NESSC article , published in Nature Communications, shows. Rising temperatures in the Arctic
/ read moreMicrobes produce more N2O with rising temperatures
Anaerobic microbes produce more nitrous oxide (N2O), a strong greenhouse gas, with rising temperatures, a new research article published in Nature Climate Change shows. The researchers also find that
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