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Trees and soils keep a lot of carbon trapped in the forest, pulling it from the atmosphere, where it can do more harm than good. In fact, roughly 30% of the carbon generated from fossil fuel burning is captured by forests. “That’s CO2 that’s not in the atmosphere,” said Boston University biogeochemist and ecologist Lucy […]
Boston University ecologists studied forest edges in the US to find that they have a greater capacity to absorb and store carbon than previously expected. We are underestimating how much carbon is being taken up by temperate forest edges