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Africas DRC Could Lose Vast Forests

2015-07-06 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: If measures proposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect its tropical forests are not enacted, it could result in a significant uptick in the nation's deforestation rate, according to a recent study. According to the paper, published by the journal PLOS ONE, forests blanket 1.1 million square kilometers (425,000 square miles) of the DRC and contain an estimated 22 billion metric tons of carbon. It's the second-largest forest carbon stock on the planet. The DRC has proposed measures...

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