NASA has created shocking visuals carbon emissions “to research our atmosphere and understand among the principal drivers” behind the gas.
The videos, that are time-lapse photography of gnarly-looking 2021 greenhouse gas emissions, show the patterns coal has taken on every continent over those 12 months.
Within the diagrams, fossil fuels are shown in orange, biomass burning in red, terrestrial ecosystems in green, and oceans in blue.
Inside each visual continent, NASA also noted “a number of interesting features” of the emissions in each region.
Within the US, the Northeast – from Washington to Boston – was considered a “major flashpoint”, and in South America plants within the Amazon rainforest absorb carbon through sunlight.
Based on NASA, in the course of the night after ingestion, these plants inevitably allow carbon to “construct up”.
Each Europe and Saudi Arabia have also been labeled as having “relatively high fossil fuel emissions”. Agricultural emissions have also been heavily noted in Central Africa, with Beijing also cited as a significant hotspot.
Down in Australia, there was a “relative lack of fossil fuel emissions,” NASA said. The agency attributes this to “low population density”.