The Arctic Has Long Been a Carbon-Capture Giant, but That’s Starting to Change
The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...
California’s federal lands are hemorrhaging carbon dioxide. Wildfires are largely to blame
A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...
Nature1mon
Fertilizing change
Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks are expected to diminish the size of the terrestrial carbon sink over the next century. Model simulations suggest that nitrogen availability is likely to play a ...
Nature1mon
The boundless carbon cycle
the carbon balance from an atmospheric perspective is compiled by running an atmospheric transport model (the so-called inverse model) back in time. The distribution of sources and sinks at land ...
Phys.org21d
After millennia as COâ‚‚ sink, more than one-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source
"While we found many northern ecosystems are still acting as carbon dioxide sinks, source regions and fires are now canceling out much of that net uptake and reversing long-standing trends." ...