Tropical forests may be absorbing more carbon, but that probably won’t make up for losses due to deforestation. Photo: Jonathan Talbot/ World Resources Institute via flickr While the problem of tropical deforestation knows no national or continental boundaries, most of the time when people talk

about carbon sequestration in tropical forests then immediately mention the Amazon , or perhaps if they’re familiar with biofuels, forests in I

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African Tropical Forests Store As Much Carbon as Their Amazonian Counterparts: That Rate’s Increasing Too