Carbon Emission by Logged Tropical Forests
Recently, a study, titled ‘Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere’, found that tropical forests, which have been logged (cut down) or degraded, remain a source of carbon emission for at least a decade.
- The findings contradict a previous assumption – that recovering tropical forests absorb more carbon than they emit into the atmosphere because they witness rapid re-growth of trees and thus act as carbon sinks.
About the Study
- The study was conducted in the forests of Malaysian Borneo, which is a hotspot of deforestation and forest degradation. The region has a vast expanse of ....
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