2013 Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions 
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Grade F: First major vital sign shift in its report card Different factors are at play in terms of whether the Arctic is a net sink or source of carbon. On one hand, warming temperatures increased vegetation in the region with increased uptake of carbon dioxide. Methane releases were sustained as well. in Arc2024 ).
HumanNature
DECEMBER 31, 2024
of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (Gerber et al., A primary concern regarding cattle and climate change is methane emissions from enteric fermentation and manure management. methane emissions (EPA, 2022). methane emissions (EPA, 2022). “Land-use change and carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon.”
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Physics World
JUNE 3, 2025
That’s because in 2013, a team of scientists were digging a trench when they came across the 3775-year-old log. When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere. 2024) State of Carbon Dioxide Removal – Edition 2. DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/F85QJ)
Circle of Blue
JULY 9, 2025
It declared 2013 the year the world’s operating coal mines had reached peak production of 8 billion metric tons. From that year forward, the agency predicted, the use of the dirtiest fuel to generate electricity would steadily decline, carrying with it planet-healing reductions in climate-changing air emissions and water-polluting discharges.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2023
They can also look at known carbon emission sources and model the world with and without those added emissions. Another study found that climate change made severe flooding in the United Kingdom 43 percent more likely during the winter of 2013-14. Precipitation events.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 10, 2024
A brief history of the land carbon sink Every year, globally, land-based ecosystems remove roughly 30% of human emissions from the atmosphere, slowing both the accumulation of atmospheric CO2 and increases in global temperature. These same environmental changes can also increase carbon losses from land-based ecosystems.
Environmental Progress
OCTOBER 17, 2021
The only thing out-of-balance were humankind's carbon emissions. But solving that problem doesn't require that rich nations become poor — or that poor nations remain poor — but simply that we move toward energy sources that don't produce carbon emissions, a process known as "decarbonization." It gets worse.
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