Taiwan (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Taiwan

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A new study found that the process of mountain erosion can be a source of new carbon dioxide gas that can release it back into the atmosphere far faster than it's being absorbed into newly exposed rock. The researchers conducted fieldwork in one of the most erosion-prone mountain chains in the world -- the central range of Taiwan (above).

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