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Global Warming and Old-Growth Forests

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Want a respite from the noise and drama of the election season?  A good way to find some peace and quiet is to step into an old-growth forest, where all stray noise seems to disappear.  It turns out, though, that the sense of stasis in these old forests is an illusion - and their dynamics are critically important in our fight against global warming.
 
Old-growth forests hold vast amounts of carbon from centuries of growth, and this carbon would be released into the atmosphere if the trees were cut down. That much has been known for a long time.
 
But new research shows that old-growth forests are even more important than previously thought. According to a new study in Nature, old-growth forests aren’t just standing there maintaining the status quo. They are still actively taking up CO2 from the atmosphere.


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