A new NASA-led study shows that tropical forests may be absorbing far more carbon dioxide than many scientists thought, in response to rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas. The study estimates that tropical forests absorb 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide out of a total global absorption of 2.5 billion -- more than is absorbed by forests in Canada, Siberia and other northern regions, called boreal forests.
"This is good news, because uptake in boreal forests is already slowing, while tropical forests may continue to take up carbon for many years," said David Schimel of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Schimel is lead author of a paper on the new research, appearing online in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
This is from: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/31dec_forests/
BTW some one left a comment about the relationship between CO2 and air travel. It is a bloody confusion to unravel the amounts. Lots of scientists are debating about it. I am myself trawling through the web pages about it. If any of my readers know anything about it please comment.
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