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Earth's oceans, forests and other ecosystems soak up about half the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning and other human activities, according to a new University of Colorado and NOAA study published in Nature.

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Will von Dauster, NOAA

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