We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide

Mongabay
Feb 24, 2021, 5:52 pm219 pts
“If a tree lives 500 years, it carries the carbon assimilated and stocked for the last 500 years,” says Giuliano Locosselli, a researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil. “If instead, the tree lives 300 years, it means the carbon will be stocked by 200 years less. So we are accelerating…

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