The Energy Budget of a Forest Includes Significant Heat Reserves

The simple formula we've learned in recent years - forests remove CO2 from the atmosphere; therefore forests help prevent global warming - may not be quite so simple. New Weizmann Institute research shows that forests can directly absorb and retain heat. In at least one type of forest, these effects may cancel out a good part of the benefit in lowered CO2.

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