Tropical Forests Are Not the Carbon Sinks We Thought They Were
A new study shows that tropical forests emit more carbon than they consume, mostly due to human activities.
Kate Wheeling Sep 29, 2017
(Photo: Ashley Thay/Flickr)
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The team found that, across all three regions, tropical forests emitted 862 teragrams of carbon every year—an amount roughly equivalent to half of the United States' yearly man-made carbon emissions—and absorbed only 425 teragrams of carbon. The majority of the loss—roughly 60 percent—came from Latin American forests, followed by tropical forests in Africa (24 percent) and then Asia (16 percent).
Yep, more trees in America surely has to be a big success story. New science is interesting, too. Can't say the same for all new politicians in recent times. In America come November it would be good to see some of them cut out, while leaving more old growth forest standing.
DesertDrifter: I don't know but I remember the East Texas pine forest of my youth. Now after all these years 73 of them and all the clear cutting and of course the East Texas Oil Fields it looks like shit over there now. True my family and I had a hand in it. My dad and I both work the oil patch and a lot of family work in the timber industry. But it still hurts to look at what has happen.
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