Blogposts tagged 'Carbon Sinks'

Treehugging gets harder as trees get bigger

Posted by davidritter - 24 February 2009 at 5:31pm - 5 Comments

Trees growing alongside River Lukenie in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Tropical trees like these in the Democratic Republic of Congo are sucking up even more carbon than previously thought © Greenpeace/Davison

Amidst the financial crisis and the ever worsening data about the speed with which climate change is occurring, it was a nice change to get some good news last week: trees are getting bigger. And not just any trees, but the rainforest trees which are some of our biggest assets and allies in tackling climate change.

The good news comes from a team of scientists reporting on a 40-year study of African tropical forests which shows that, for at least the last few decades, each hectare of intact African forest has trapped an extra 0.6 tonnes of carbon per year.

Article tagged as: carbon sinks, climate change, forests, forests for climate, politics, rainforests

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How much would you pay for rainfall and carbon sinks?

Posted by tracy - 9 September 2008 at 4:10pm - 0 Comments

After this summer I would be willing to empty my account for some sunshine, but rainforest are rarely seen has having value beyond the commodities they produce. Last night Panorama looked at the important issue of the value of our rainforests to the planet. Known as ecosystem services, forests "influence weather systems on a vast scale, produce rainfall and capture CO2 from the atmosphere, reducing global warming".

Article tagged as: amazon, carbon sinks, climate change, ecosystem services, panorama, rainforests