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Letter: We could do more to make forests lock away carbon

Published 9 September 2020

From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

The trouble with using forests as carbon sinks is that rotting puts carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere (15 August, p 38). If we really want to reduce the carbon dioxide in the air, we should harvest wood from the forests and store it, either as wood, charcoal or some other carbon-containing substance.

Issue no. 3299 published 12 September 2020

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