Amazon Basin Discovery
2018-11-27
Writer(s): Steve Scherer
A team of researchers, including Professor Alexander Laskin, has made a discovery about the atmospheric composition of the Amazon.
In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers reveal that fungal spores are a source of sodium salt particles in the Amazon basin, as opposed to previous assumptions that sodium-containing aerosols originate primarily from marine sources transported from the ocean.
“The take-home message of the paper is now we know that ‘Green Oceans’ of tropical forests emit very similar stuff as the true ‘Blue Ocean,’” explained Laskin.