Lake Geneva's High CO2 Emissions

This is a Lausanne news story, published by MSN.

Lausanne news

For more Lausanne news, you can click here:

more Lausanne news

environmental science news

For more environmental science news, you can click here:

more environmental science news

MSN news

For more news from MSN, you can click here:

more news from MSN

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like environmental science news, you might also like this article about

lake CO2 emissions

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest CO2 news, summer CO2 absorption news, environmental science news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Lake Geneva

Phys Org

•

Scientists solve enigma of why Lake Geneva emits large quantities of CO₂

Summary

Nutrition label

87% Informative

Lake Geneva produces as much CO2 as the automobile transport of the city of Lausanne ( 150,000 inhabitants) A team of UNIL scientists has just deciphered the mechanisms involved.

Most of the emissions actually come from the natural erosion of rocks in the lake's upstream basin.

When rainwater releases bicarbonate and calcium ions, which then find their way into the lake.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive