Satellites Gear Up to Monitor Greenhouse Gases

As climate talks wind down in Paris, new space-based tools are gearing up to curb greenhouse gases, and to understand what happens to carbon dioxide after it is emitted. One tool will help monitor deforestation and help enforce agreements to stop it. The other gives scientists the most detailed information ever on where carbon dioxide is coming from and where it is going. Deforestation accounts for between 10 and 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The draft Paris agreement...

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