Forests play an essential role in capturing and storing carbon. But climate change poses a growing threat to these ecosystems. With fires and deforestation linked to human activity, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has, for example, released more carbon than it absorbed in the last 10 years, according to recent research.
But tropical forests aren’t the only areas of woodland under threat from climate change, according to a new study from Boston University researchers.
According to the authors of the study, published in Nature Climate Change, the computer models currently used to simulate how the Earth’s climate will change in the future underestimate the impact of global warming…
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