One-fifth of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by threatened forests
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 09:49
in Earth & Climate
Globally, tropical trees in undisturbed forest are absorbing nearly a fifth of the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels.
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