Drought May Stunt Forests' Ability to Capture Carbon

Drought May Stunt Forests' Ability to Capture Carbon,
July 30, 2015,
By Bobby Magill,
ClimateCentral.org,

Forests are sometimes called the lungs of the earth - they breathe in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks until the forest dies or burns. A new study, however, shows that forests devastated by drought may lose their ability to store carbon over a much longer period than previously thought, reducing their role as a buffer between humans' carbon emissions and a changing climate.