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Ending deforestation won't stop carbon emissions from land use change
2014-11-17 22:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Even if the world stopped cutting down forests, carbon dioxide emissions from land use change would still pose a major challenge, according to a new paper in Nature Climate Change. The research finds that eliminating deforestation would mean agriculture would be pushed into non-forest ecosystems and still release significant quantities of carbon dioxide. "While protecting forests to abate climate change is definitely worthwhile, our results illustrate for the first time that forest protection...
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