One-fifth of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by threatened forests
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 13:42
in Earth & Climate
An international team of scientists have discovered that rainforest trees are getting bigger. They are storing more carbon from the atmosphere in their trunks, which has significantly reduced the rate of climate change.
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