Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
- Written by Xuanlong Ma, Research Associate in Remote Sensing, Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney
Back in 2010-11 Australia “greened”, as record-breaking rains triggered a boom in plant growth that removed huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stored it as carbon in the landscape.
But what happened after that? Our latest research, published in Scientific Reports,...