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Potential impacts of mercury released from thawing permafrost
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2020.
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Abstract
- Permafrost locks away the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, but climate warming threatens to thaw these systems. Here the authors use models to show that unconstrained fossil fuel burning will dramatically increase the amount of mercury released into future ecosystems.
- Subjects :
- Science
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.4f2c00377d6c4978a3062409c329c81d
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18398-5