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Northern forests rev up carbon cycle
2013-08-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Northern forests are not just surviving but thriving, despite concerns about droughts, wildfires and bark beetles surging as the world warms. Ecosystem productivity is rising at high latitudes, with a roughly 50% increase in the amount of carbon cycling through northern landscapes since the 1950s, according to an analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide trends published today in Science1. Boreal forests in particular have shown marked increases in carbon uptake during summer. Something quite massive...
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