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 Stories About: climate AND climate change impacts AND deforestation AND greenhouse-gas emissions AND rainforests
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Slowforestation
Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees, thanks to accelerating carbon dioxide |
Joseph Romm |
22 Jan 2008 |
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| I meant to blog on this earlier, but lost track of it after failing to find the original study (for reasons that will become clear). The bottom line is: Global warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow by as much as half, a new study based on more two decades of data from forests in Panama and Malaysia shows. The effects, so far largely overlooked by climate modelers, Nature magazine said, could severely erode or even remove the a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics) |
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