Record January heat suggests La Niña may be losing its ability to keep global warming in check
January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...
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The boundless carbon cycle
In the top-down approach, the carbon balance from an atmospheric perspective is compiled ... place in conceptual models of the global carbon cycle. A broader concept of a 'boundless carbon cycle ...
Q&A: How rate of CO2 rise can affect a global ocean current
How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide — and with it, the temperature — goes up matters for the ability of humans and ecosystems to adjust. A slower increase gives humans time to move away ...
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Schematic plot of multisource and multiscale terrestrial carbon cycle data assimilation (IMAGE)
To improve the estimation accuracy of the terrestrial carbon cycle, it is often necessary to integrate atmospheric carbon cycle models and observations (top-down) and terrestrial carbon cycle ...
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California’s federal lands are hemorrhaging carbon dioxide. Wildfires are largely to blame
They exchange this carbon with the atmosphere through many pathways ... who can wait a day to check their predictions, carbon cycle researchers have little ability to directly measure carbon ...
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Zooplankton research highlights key role in marine carbon storage
Without this biological carbon pump, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ... the impacts of global warming on the marine carbon cycle and food webs. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your ...
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how ocean ecosystems help fight climate change
Sunshine reflected off the planet’s surface back into the atmosphere causes those gas ... of sea life interact sheds light on Earth’s carbon cycle. Carbon, a chemical element, is found in ...