BBCNEWS BBC News October 28, 2021 03:15:00
From absorbers of greenhouse gases into net emitters of carbon, due to human activity. the shift is blamed on illegal logging, agriculture, and increasingly frequent wildfires, driven by climate change over the last two decades. david gibbs, co—author of this unesco report told me more about theirfindings. so, when we cut down forests or they are burned, they will emit carbon into the atmosphere, and it's a matter of how much forests we cut down relative to how much forest we leave it standing. if we cut down too much, we have forests that emit more carbon than they are capturing from the at...