Largest carbon dioxide sink in renewable forests

(Karlsruher Institut f ü r Technologie (KIT)) Forests are the filters of our Earth: they clean the air, remove dust particles, and produce oxygen. So far, the rain forest in particular has been considered the 'green lung' of our planet. Yet, an international team, including researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, recently found that the world's largest carbon sinks are located in young, regrowing forests. The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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