Chinese researchers identify new "geochemical switch" regulating Earth's Climate

GUANGZHOU, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The shifts in marine sulfate concentrations can flip the way that methane is consumed on the seafloor, acting as a geochemical switch that modulates Earth's climate, according to a research article published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The researchers of the study, from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), warned that a simil