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Pinning down the land carbon sink

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Over half of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere are removed naturally by land and ocean carbon sinks. New analysis indicates that the land sink is increasing in some surprising places.

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Figure 1: Changes in the global atmospheric CO2 budget between 1960 and 2010.

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  1. Michael R. Raupach is at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, GPO Box 3023, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia,

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