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ScienceDaily: What goes in must come out, a truism that now may be applied to global river networks. Human-caused nitrogen loading to river networks is a potentially important source of nitrous oxide emission to the atmosphere. Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction.
It happens via a microbial process called denitrification, which converts nitrogen to nitrous oxide and an inert gas called dinitrogen.
When summed across the globe, scientists......
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Global rivers emit three times IPCC estimates of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 20th, 2010
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