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Africa’s tropical forests sequestered carbon in recent decades

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

Field studies reveal that Africa’s rain forests locked away, on average, more than a billion metric tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide each year during the past four decades.

TALE OF THE TAPE Four decades’ worth of field studies in Africa suggest that the continent’s rain forests sequestered an average of 340 million metric tons of carbon each year between 1968 and 2007.