Article source for : IPCC 'wrong' on logging threat to climate
Pristine temperate forest stores three times more carbon than currently estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and 60% more than plantation forests, according to research in Australia.
The finding increases their potential role in combating global warming and strengthens the need to protect them, says lead author Brendan Mackey of the Australian National University in Canberra.
Mackey and colleagues used remote sensing and direct sampling to study eucalyptus trees at 240 sites across a 14.5-million hectare swathe of natural forest in south-east Australia. ("cont.":http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn14466-ipcc-wrong-on-logging-threat-to-climate.html?feedId=climate-change_rss20)
