NASA tracks carbon emissions from space to better understand climate change
Fires, drought and warmer temperatures were to blame for excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere during the 2015-16 El Nino, scientists with NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 say.
The findings, part of five papers published in the journal Science, shed light on the mechanisms through which Earth "breathes" carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, and reveal how those mechanisms affect climate change.
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