New measurements show widespread forest loss has reversed the role of tropics as a carbon sink

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A new report provides the most comprehensive picture of deforestation's toll on critical climate change safeguard; reveals hard-to-measure forest degradation is responsible for nearly 70 percent of emissions from tropical forests. Researchers discovered that tropical regions are now a net source of carbon to the atmosphere.

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