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CO2 Overload Causing Forests To Lose Ability To Absorb Carbon

At the moment, plants remove about three gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, as humans pump out over 11 gigatons. The balance is way out of scale. Planting more trees will help, but it likely will not be enough. Now, scientists discover that the world’s tropical forests...