Amazon Rainforest Foliage Gases Affect the Earth's Atmosphere - EurekAlert

PNNL researchers have uncovered a plant-derived process that leads to the formation of aerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest and potentially other forested parts of the world.

image: PNNL Earth scientist Manish Shrivastava and his team identified an atmospheric process that creates a type of fine particle over the Amazon rainforest. Through the process, semi-volatile gases… [+6951 chars]

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