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Trees getting taller, soaking more emissions [1]

London: Tropical trees have grown bigger over the past 40 years and now absorb 20% of fossil fuel emissions from the atmosphere, highlighting the need to preserve threatened forests, British researchers said.

Publication Date: 
20/02/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Tropical Forests [3], Trees [4], Carbon Dioxide [5], Climate Change [6], Carbon Sinks [7], Fossil Fuels [8]

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