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Many Overheated Forests May Soon Release More Carbon Than They Absorb

New research suggests that, sooner than expected, trees may become carbon sources rather than carbon sinks, as a feedback loop of rising temperatures drives them to release more greenhouse gases.

By Bob Berwyn

As the climate in the Rocky Mountains warmed at about double the average global rate in recent decades, rapidly spreading bark beetle outbreaks left millions of trees red and dead, part of an intensifying cycle of global warming impacts that decreases the amount of carbon dioxide forests can take out of the atmosphere. Credit: Bob Berwyn
A farm worker applies biochar in the field during a demonstration at a farm near Windhoek, capital of Namibia, on Oct. 8, 2020. Credit: Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua via Getty Images

Biochar Traps Water and Fixes Carbon in Soil, Helping the Climate. But It’s Expensive

By Jonathan Moens

NASA, Cisco Building System to Monitor the Planetary Skin

By Stacy Morford

Scientists Search for Carbon Solutions in Amazonia's 'Black Earth'

By Max Ajl

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Lost at Launch

By Laura Shin

USDA Census (Part II): Destroying the Land, Destroying the Planet

By Max Ajl

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