Warming soils may belch much more carbon
Scientists boost estimates based on measurements from greater depths
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DEEP DIRT Carbon emissions from soils could increase more than previously thought as temperatures go up, a new experiment suggests. Caitlin Hicks Pries (at the computer) and colleagues monitored emissions from a forest plot in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
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