A committed climate change effect of forest mortality ? #forest #CO2 #ElNiño ForestPlots Forest plots measure wood growth minus mortality. As dead wood decays, atmospheric CO2 will increases during many years after mortality. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… by Hui Yang

The litter that slowed down the carbon cycle Josep Penuelas Global Change Biology Great analysis by Yue He just published. A slower litter carbon turnover is a good news for carbon sinks, at least in the short term. Yet missing an accounting of woody debris. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Happy Niu Year! "Niu/ox" in Chinese means "great". I'd like to post my first tweet about my Nature communications paper that happened to be online today. Spring greening benefits and dominates summer/autumn growth through the biological carryover mechanism nature.com/articles/s4146…

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is not the same as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), and we need to stop inaccurately conflating the two. CDR removes atmospheric CO2. Its carbon negative. CCS (w/fossil fuels) reduces the amount of CO2 emitted. It's at best carbon neutral.

Very excited! I have finished my thesis defense.

We have completed an improved and updated Global Nitrous Oxide Budget, now in review. A report card on the state of natural and anthropogenic sources and sinks of N2O, the third most important GHG. An effort by many led by Hanqin Tian & Rona Thompson. essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd…

Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening rdcu.be/dAQoE

On many parts of the land surface, the hottest days are warming faster than the annual mean, according to a new paper by Chris Huntingford, Joe Clarke, Paul Ritchie et al. (UKCEH Paper Alerts Global Systems Institute Exeter University Mathematics ). Full paper available at: rdcu.be/dDIsn

Very nice study led by Xiangyi! Xiangyi Li We have investigated the level of 2023 greenness among the recent 24 years. The "greening" of Earth continues for the recent decades, but climate extremes could modulate the long-term pace in greenness.

Exciting finding! We found the record-high global vegetation greenness in 2024. But tropical rainforests were not greener. So the global land carbon sink in 2024 could not increase.