2023-10-10 16:55:58
Young temperate and boreal forests are the largest carbon sinks. jonas / stock.adobe.com
Due to its great age, the Amazon forest no longer plays the leading role in this carbon cycle, notes a study coordinated by INRAE and the CEA.
The capacity of forests to absorb carbon dioxide is a key element in the development of global policies to combat global warming. As they grow, plants draw from the atmosphere the CO2 necessary for their growth, which they will then store. The Amazon rainforest, often referred to as the planet’s green lung, was until recently considered the planet’s main forest carbon sink. But a study published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience however, confirms that this is no longer the case. The massifs of the boreal and temperate zones stole the show.
An international research team coordinated by the CEA and Inrae reached this conclusion after mapping the annual changes in global forest biomass – in other words the dry weight of vegetation – between 2010 and 2019, using a new analysis method. data from the SMOS satellite.
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