Much of the carbon in rivers originates from wildfires and is ultimately buried in the oceanic carbon sink, suggest measurements from 18 rivers globally. Rivers transport almost a gigaton of carbon to the oceans every year.
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Tranvik, L.J. New light on black carbon. Nature Geosci 11, 547–548 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0181-x
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