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Old Growth Forests Are Valuable Carbon Sinks

Planet Green Articles Feed found this 1/13/2009 on sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2008)— Contrary to 40 years of conventional wisdom, a new analysis published in the journal Nature suggests that old growth forests are usually "carbon sinks" - they continue to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change for centuries. However, ...