Marine research in the Brazilian rain forest https://www.mpg.de/5989549/marine-research_brazilian-rain-forest
In recent decades, after years of deforestation, the Atlantic rain forest was almost completely destroyed. Thorsten Dittmar’s Research Group for Marine Geochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have now discovered that the common practice of slash and burn left huge amounts of charcoal in the soil. This charcoal is washed out by rainfalls and transported by rivers into the Atlantic Ocean. The soluble fraction of charcoal is composed of extremely stable carbon compounds. So far, the effects on marine microorganisms and the global carbon cycle are unknown.
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