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Drought-hit forests store less carbon dioxide than thought, study finds [1]

The world's forests are taking longer than expected to recover from increasingly frequent droughts, meaning their ability to store climate-changing carbon dioxide is smaller than previously thought

Publication Date: 
31/07/2015
Age (Australia) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Carbon Dioxide [4], Carbon Sinks [5], Droughts [6], Climate Change [7], United States Of America (US) [8], Global Warming [9]
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