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Forests, soil may not keep pace with CO2 emissions, experts warn – Macau Business
International, MNA | The world is counting too heavily on soil and plants to soak up planet-ravaging carbon pollution, researchers cautioned Wednesday.
The world is counting too heavily on soil and plants to soak up planet-ravaging carbon pollution, researchers cautioned Wednesday.
Climate projections mistakenly assume that land and what grows on it are able to absorb the CO2 humanity loads into the atmosphere, they reported in the journal Nature.
In reality, there’s a trade off.
“Either soil or plants, but not both, will absorb more CO2 as carbon levels rise,” lead author Cesar Terrer, a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in…
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