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Good news on tropical rain forest: they bounce back solid, keeping even more carbon than thought
Plantations International Information Youthful additional forest in Costa Rica, with old-growth trees visible in the background. Susan G. Letcher, CC BY-SASusan Letcher, Purchase College State College of New YorkWhen you reduced as well as melt a tropical woodland, you're entrusted a barren level of split red mud, unable of sustaining life-- the opposite of the teeming, hyperdiverse array of life that was damaged. As soon as the trees are gone, the nutrients get rid of and the soil degrades into a dense, brick-like level so solidified that plant roots can't get with it.This was the vision of exotic logging held in [...]
