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ScienceDaily: Wild fire residue is washed out of the soil and transported to the sea by rivers.
Wild fires turn millions of hectares of vegetation into charcoal each year. An international team of researchers led by Thorsten Dittgar from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Rudolf Jaffé from Florida International University's Southeast Environmental Research Center in Miami has now shown that this charcoal does not remain in the soil, as previously thought. Instead, it is transported......
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Massive amounts of charcoal enter the worlds’ oceans
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 19th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation