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  • Rainforest wildfires – like this at Rio Tapajós, tributary stream to Amazon – are the origin of huge amounts of soot and charcoal particles, transported by rivers to the oceans. [Photo: Nick Ward]

Amazon rainforest wildfires – what about the soot?

Vast amounts of dissolved charcoal are transported to the sea by the Amazon river, as reported in the current issue of Nature Communications by an international researcher team with participation of ICBM geochemists Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dittmar and Dr. Michael Seidel.

Oldenburg. Vast amounts of dissolved charcoal are transported to the sea by the Amazon river, as reported in the current issue of Nature Communications by an international researcher team with participation of ICBM geochemists Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dittmar and Dr. Michael Seidel.

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