Researchers show accelerating carbon dioxide release from rocks in Arctic Canada with global warming

Published on October 9, 2024

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have shown that weathering of rocks in the Canadian Arctic will accelerate with rising temperatures, triggering a positive feedback loop that will release more and more CO2 to the atmosphere. The findings have been published this week in the journal Science Advances.
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