Despite high hopes, carbon absorbed by Amazon forest recovery is dwarfed by deforestation emissions

ScienceDaily
Sep 28, 2020, 3:28 pm139 pts
After calculating how much carbon had been lost through deforestation, scientists have discovered that, in more than 30 years, the regrowth of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon has offset less than 10 per cent of emissions from the loss of old-growth forests.

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