Forest fragmentation may be releasing much more carbon than we think

Mongabay
Mar 31, 2017, 5:24 pm234 pts
The earth's forests have been broken into around 50 million fragments, the edges of which add up to a length that would make it a third of the way to the sun and which increase annual tropical deforestation carbon emissions by 31 percent. This, according to a new study published yesterday in Nature…

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