RedOrbit: Tropical forests may be more resistant to the effects of greenhouse gas emissions than previously believed, according to a new study published online this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.
In what Olive Heffernan of Nature refers to as the most extensive study of its kind, researchers from the US, the UK, Australia and Brazil created a simulation of the impact that carbon-based emissions would have on tropical forests in the Amazonia/Central America region, Asia and Africa through the year...