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Climate research breakthrough A long standing puzzle that has haunted climate researchers looking at the fate of carbon stored in the world`s soils, has now been resolved. The research suggests that climate warming may be occurring even faster than previously recognised.The international team of researchers, led by Bristol University and reporting in Nature [20 January 2005], show that an apparent biological adaptation of micro-organisms that break down carbon in soils, thereby releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, can in fact be explained by the widely contrasting properties of those organic carbons.
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