California Wildfires Enable Carbon Cycle Research (IMAGE)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

California Wildfires Enable Carbon Cycle Research

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Wildfires that burned a natural research area created a rare chance to study the journey of "black carbon" from a charred hillside to the ocean as part of the global carbon cycle.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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