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Rainforest regrowth boosts carbon capture

2016-02-05 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Newly grown rainforests can absorb 11 times as much carbon from the atmosphere as old-growth forests, a study has shown. The researchers have produced a map showing regions in Latin America where regrowing rainforests would deliver the greatest benefits. However, they added that old-growth forests still needed to be protected as they locked away vast amount of carbon. Details of the study have been published in the journal Nature. The international team of scientists compiled data from...

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