Glory, a new edition to the A-Train constellation of environmental monitoring satellites, is due to go into space in late February. A monitor and sensor aboard will help scientists better understand the dynamics of global warming, and sort out changes in the sun’s energy from natural and human influences.
Getting a Handle on Global Carbon: A plan to scale up carbon observation needs financial backing
The GEO Carbon Strategy is a sweeping plan to multiply measurements of carbon flows and facilitate their conversion into analysis and model-building. The goal is to determine carbon’s fluxes through the environment with enough accuracy to pin-point the regions that are carbon sinks and sources. But the plan needs to secure the resources required to address under-observed regions and ecosystems.