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Dramatic Forest Death In Amazon Casts Shadow Over Future Of Climate Change

2013-01-29 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RedOrbit: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it have a direct impact on climate change? A new study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) set out to answer this question. Forests are critical to the equilibrium of Earths climate since they absorb large quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide directly from our atmosphere. The death of a tree, however, reverses the flow of carbon and releases it back into the atmosphere. The Berkeley Lab study sought...

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