Saturday, September 8, 2012

Mangrove deforestation 3x worse for climate than rainforest loss

Mongabay: Degradation and destruction of the world's seagrasses, tidal marshes, and mangroves may generate up to a billion tons in carbon dioxide emissions annually, reports a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. The research looked at the world's 49 million hectares of coastal ecosystems and attempted to estimate emissions from conversion. Due to high levels of uncertainty about the extent of these ecosystems and the rate of conversion as well as the variance in carbon stocks, the study came up...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0907-coastal-ecosystems-blue-carbon.html

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