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Reading the climate record on Monte San Valentin, Chile

Environment and Resources department - Ocean, climate, impacts, Natural risks and vulnerability - Chile

January 2000

By reconstructing how Earth’s climate has varied in the past, at different scales of space and time, climatologists are learning about the climate interactions between different parts of the world. This will improve their estimates of the consequences of climate change on local conditions − a ...

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The Amazon floodplains : carbon sink

Environment and Resources department - Ocean, climate, impacts, Natural risks and vulnerability - Brazil, Peru

January 2000

The role played by humid tropical ecosystems in the global carbon cycle is not yet well understood. Since 2000 IRD researchers and their Brazilian partners have been studying the floodplains along the Amazon River and its tributaries to improve understanding of how these ecosystems function and ...

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