The Arctic Has Long Been a Carbon-Capture Giant, but That’s Starting to Change
An international team of researchers, led by the Woodwell Climate Research Center, pored over decades of data provided by a ...
Phys.org20 天
After millennia as CO₂ sink, more than one-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source
The findings represent the most current and comprehensive assessment of carbon fluxes in the ABZ to date. Drawing on a library of CO₂ data four times as large as earlier upscaling efforts ...
Ulster University26 天
Carbon fluxes in the uplands and implications for national inventories
Northern Ireland peatlands, and upland peats in particular, are currently devalued in terms of carbon due to the broad default emissions factors that are applied across these environments (Evans et al ...
iaea.org3 年
The ocean carbon cycle
as part of what is called ‘the global carbon cycle.’ A change in any of these fluxes could have wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems and our climate. The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and ...
Krill vertical migration may have smaller impact on carbon export than previously thought
Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution to the carbon export "highway" compared to their fast-sinking feces, ...
earth13 天
Earth's Arctic region has flipped and now emits more carbon than it stores
For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...
Business Wire12 天
Agrology Offers New NEE Measurement System as Beta Program to Select U.S. Researchers
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Understanding ecosystem-scale carbon flux is essential to advancing global carbon cycle research. Agrology has achieved a major breakthrough with the development ...