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Study: Young rainforests are carbon emitters

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Published: January 12th, 2023,
Last updated: May 27th, 2025

Instead of capturing carbon, regenerating rainforests on recently cleared land releases carbon for at least ten years. This is the result of a recent study published in the scientific journal PNAS.

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