A more potent CO2 sink than the Amazon, Brazil’s mangroves remain overlooked

Mongabay
Mar 3, 2022, 10:56 am321 pts
Tropical forests play a fundamental role in storing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming. And while the Amazon rainforest is often top of mind when it comes to stores of CO2, there’s another ecosystem in Brazil that stashes away a much larger amount of carbon per hectare:…

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