Unexpected increase in global vegetation and carbon capture

From: www.labonline.com.au

An international team of scientists, led by Australians, has used 20 years of satellite data to analyse the total amount of vegetation around the world - with surprising results.

In spite of large-scale deforestation in the tropics, with the greatest declines occurring on the edge of the Amazon forests and in the Indonesian provinces of Sumatra and Kalimantan, the team found that vegetation has increased by almost the equivalent of 4 billion tonnes of carbon since 2003.

Lead author Dr Yi Liu, from the University of New South Wales, said this increase has come from “a lucky combination of environmental and economic factors and massive tree-planting projects in China”.

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