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- Title
Climate change: That sinking feeling.
- Authors
Schiermeier, Quirin
- Abstract
This article reports that Siberia's vast forests absorb huge quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. It took just one Siberian heatwave to temporarily wipe out most of the gains made by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In the summer of 2003, wildfires raced across the region, incinerating an area of some 22 million hectares: slightly smaller than the state of Oregon. Siberia looms large in this debate, its vast forests or taiga, are a potentially huge sink for greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Yet so little is known about Siberia's role in the global carbon cycle that researchers have been scrambling to gather basic data. Siberia is also a climatic hot spot, with short warm summers and extremely long, cold winters.
- Subjects
SIBERIA (Russia); RUSSIA; CLIMATE change; GREENHOUSE gases; ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide; CARBON compounds; CARBON cycle
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 435, Issue 7043, p732
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/435732a