Forests Are Losing Their Ability to Hold Carbon - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    So it looks like the causes are:

    • Increasing natural disasters such as wildfires, tornadoes and hurricanes
    • Continual development in forested areas
    • Aging forests

    This means at minimum we would have to:

    • Mitigate climate change
    • Create more national/protected forest areas
    • Manage those forests effectively to ensure efficient carbon absorption (replacing older trees with younger trees when applicable).

    That’s a pretty tall order.