Australian forests in front-line of emissions battle
The Australian Government’s ABC News is reporting Australian forests in front-line of emissions battle.
Scientists have found that Australia’s tropical rainforests are a lot more important in ‘cleaning’ the earth’s environment than anyone previously thought.
Environmental scientist at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory, Lindsay Hutley, says the new research turns the traditional view of global carbon patterns on its head.
“This new work is kind of reversing that, suggesting that actually there’s quite a significant sink from the tropics and much weaker sink from the northern hemisphere,” he said.
We love forests, and although we now sell all manner of carbon credits, its still only forestry projects that actually remove carbon from the atmosphere. — DS
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