‘Scientists have figured out \u2014 with the precise numbers deduced only recently \u2014 that forests have been absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that people are putting into the air by burning fossil fuels and other activities. It is an amount so large that trees are effectively absorbing the emissions from all the world\u2019s cars and trucks.’<\/p>\n

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