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Trump White House axes Nasa research into greenhouse gas cuts
President Donald Trump’s administration has quietly axed US space agency Nasa’s monitoring system into greenhouse gases, a US journal has revealed.
- BBC
The Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10m (£7m)-a-year project which remotely tracks the world’s flow of carbon dioxide, is to lose funding.
Science magazine reports that its loss jeopardises the ability to measure national emission cuts – as agreed to by nations in the Paris climate deal.
The US plans to withdraw from the deal.
However, until a pullout is formalised in 2020, the US continues to be part of the international climate accord.
US officials are…