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A Global Garden: Plants Storing Carbon

By providing a measurement of all of the carbon being stored in Earth’s plants, maps like these help scientists figure out what happens to the carbon people release by burning fossil fuels.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Global Garden: Plants Storing Carbon.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon and Reto Stöckli using MODIS data. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published July 8, 2011
Data acquired August 1 - 31, 2010

Source:: Terra > MODIS