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Cleaning The Atmosphere Of Carbon: African Forests Out Of Balance

ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2009) — Tropical forests hold more living biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem. A new report in the journal Nature by Lewis et al. shows that not only do trees in intact African tropical forests hold a lot of carbon, they hold more carbon now than they did 40 years ago--a hopeful sign that tropical forests could help to mitigate global warming.

 

Cleaning The Atmosphere Of Carbon: African Forests Out Of Balance

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