Forests soak up one-third of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year via burning fossil fuels — roughly 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide, a benchmark study has found, AFP reported.
What’s more, if deforestation stopped, established forests and forest regrowth could potentially capture one-half — 50 percent — of the carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels.
The study, published in the journal Science, indicates that forests are much better at absorbing and processing carbon dioxide than originally thought, The New York Times reported.
The study’s lead author, Yude Pam, a research forester at the Forest Service, says tropical forests alone captured about 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, or about 55 percent of the amount carbon dioxide absorbed.
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