The phrase
"carbon uptake" refers to the process in which plants and other living organisms absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This helps in reducing the amount of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in the environment and mitigating climate change.
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- As a result, the new model found that the increase in carbon uptake by more vegetation will be overshadowed by a much larger amount of carbon released into the atmosphere. (newscenter.lbl.gov)
- Features of the ocean - carbon cycle that we did not account for may also be changing and could influence ocean carbon uptake in the future. (giss.nasa.gov)
- • Climate change alone will tend to suppress both land and ocean carbon uptake, increasing the fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions that remain airborne and producing a positive feedback to climate change. (ipcc.ch)
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