Are young trees or old forests more important for slowing climate change?

Forests are thought to be crucial in the fight against climate change—and with good reason. We’ve known for a long time that the extra CO₂ humans are putting in the atmosphere makes trees grow faster, taking a large portion of that CO₂ back out of the atmosphere and storing it in wood and soils.


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Source: Phys.org