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Inland waterways emit more carbon than expected
https://news.wsu.edu/2016/05/24/inland-waterways-emit-carbon-expected/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Inland waterways emit more carbon than expected[/font]
May 24, 2016
By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture
[font size=3]PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have found that greenhouse-gas emissions from lakes and inland waterways may be as much as 45 percent greater than previously thought.
Their study, published today in Environmental Research Letters, has implications for the global carbon budget and suggests that terrestrial ecosystems may not be as good a carbon reservoir as scientists thought.
Similar to the way people use a budget to manage finances, researchers are working to understand where carbon is being spent and saved on a global scale to better manage resources. The scientists know that humans are emitting about 33 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year into the atmosphere globally and that the emissions are changing the climate. About half of the emissions stay in the atmosphere, but researchers are unable to quantify with certainty how much carbon is taken up by land and oceans.
“People can’t figure out how to close the budget with great confidence,’’ said Heping Liu, associate professor in the WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “That’s the big mystery.’’
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May 24, 2016
By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture
[font size=3]PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have found that greenhouse-gas emissions from lakes and inland waterways may be as much as 45 percent greater than previously thought.
Their study, published today in Environmental Research Letters, has implications for the global carbon budget and suggests that terrestrial ecosystems may not be as good a carbon reservoir as scientists thought.
Similar to the way people use a budget to manage finances, researchers are working to understand where carbon is being spent and saved on a global scale to better manage resources. The scientists know that humans are emitting about 33 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year into the atmosphere globally and that the emissions are changing the climate. About half of the emissions stay in the atmosphere, but researchers are unable to quantify with certainty how much carbon is taken up by land and oceans.
“People can’t figure out how to close the budget with great confidence,’’ said Heping Liu, associate professor in the WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “That’s the big mystery.’’
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