Rivers worldwide reveal greenhouse gas rise that's been overlooked for decades

Rivers around the world are under severe stress: they are warming, losing oxygen and consequently emitting increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now quantified these global trends over a period of more than two decades. Their results show that rising temperatures and anthropogenic land use are fundamentally transforming river systems, with serious consequences for the climate. The results were published in Global Change Biology.