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Browning the waters

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Levels of dissolved organic carbon in British streams and lakes have risen over the past two decades. It might be a downstream effect of decreased acid rain — but isolating single factors is notoriously difficult.

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Figure 1: Passage of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) through the landscape.

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