World’s 9.9 billion acres of forest absorb a 1/4 of CO2
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:05 am
Changing Forests
The world’s 9.9 billion acres of forest absorb roughly a quarter of human emissions of carbon dioxide, and help limit the increase of the gas in the atmosphere. While many healthy forests are robustly absorbing carbon, others are threatened by a warming climate.
They have a really cool interactive map.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011 ... rests.html
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The world’s 9.9 billion acres of forest absorb roughly a quarter of human emissions of carbon dioxide, and help limit the increase of the gas in the atmosphere. While many healthy forests are robustly absorbing carbon, others are threatened by a warming climate.
They have a really cool interactive map.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011 ... rests.html
Related article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/scien ... orest.html