ScienceNews: Droughts stifled carbon storage in vegetation in many regions during the last decade, satellite images reveal. Declines in carbon storage from 2000 through 2009 are depicted in shades of red; green denotes increases in vegetation for the same period. Stronger trends are depicted in darker colors.Zhao and Running/University of Montana Deep and extended droughts are responsible for a recent slowdown in the amount of carbon dioxide that land plants pulled from the atmosphere as they ......
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Worldwide slowdown in plant carbon uptake
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 21st, 2010
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