Declining Snowpack in Rockies Cools CO2, Slows Gas Release from Winter Forest Soils

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Instruments on a tower at NSFs Niwot Ridge LTER site in Colo. measure carbon dioxide. Credit: CU-Boulder
Instruments on a tower at NSF's Niwot Ridge LTER site in Colo. measure carbon dioxide. Credit: CU-Boulder

A decrease in Rocky Mountain snowfall has slowed the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas from forest soils into the atmosphere during the dead of winter, according to results of a new study.


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