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Humans and the Global Carbon Cycle: A Faustian Bargain?

NASA
4.12.07
Carbon, the building block of life, cycles through the land, ocean, atmosphere, and the Earth’s interior, in what is simply called the carbon cycle. As part of the carbon cycle, we breathe fresh oxygen produced when plants take in atmospheric carbon dioxide. We tap into carbon that has been stored in Earth’s geosphere for millions [...]