N. American forests unlikely to save us from climate change

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 08:31 in Earth & Climate

Forests take up 25 – 30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide — a strong greenhouse gas — and are therefore considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of climate change. However, a new study that combines future climate model projections, historic tree-ring records across the entire continent of […]

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