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Paul Palmer is a Professor of Quantitative Earth Observation at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Centre for Exoplanet Science. He is also the Science Director of the National Centre for Earth Observation. Paul is a science team member of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2 and OCO-3) and serves as the UK Principal Investigator for the French-UK MicroCarb satellite instrument.

Paul Palmer

Oct 23 2025

Record-breaking CO₂ rise shows the Amazon is faltering

Illuminem Voices

Biodiversity · Effects

The Amazon rainforest’s ability to absorb carbon weakened due to extreme drought, underscoring the urgent need to preserve satellite monitoring critical for tracking global carbon dynamics

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