Navigation Area   The United States absorbed carbon dioxide despite a drought 25.04.2016 | By:   |  Researchers have shown that the warm spring of 2012 in the US caused plants to absorb more carbon, thereby compensating for reductions during the subsequent summer drought. Micrometeorological measurements at Kendall Grassland, Arizona (Photo: Russ Scott, USDA-ARS) In the US, spring 2012 was the warmest on record. The subsequent summer was dryer and hotter than any summer since the 1930s, a period that became known in the history books as the ‘Dust Bowl’. In 2012, drought and heat afflicted almost the entire contiguous United States. Climate researchers suspected that this summer drought four years ago could turn the contiguous United States into a carbon source, as was the case in Europe du
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