African rainforests still slowed climate change despite record heat and drought

ScienceDaily
May 17, 2021, 7:47 pm49 pts
Intact rainforests across tropical Africa continued to remove carbon from the atmosphere before and during the 2015-2016 El Niño, despite the extreme heat and drought. Theyl removed 1.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere during the El Niño monitoring period. This rate is equivalent to…

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