Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27462-3

55•PaulHoule•2h ago

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dr_dshiv•1h ago

Happened in Finland too— forests becoming net carbon producers.

https://www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-events/news/finlands-forests...

lmc•1h ago

And Austria

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268965/vom-retter-zu...

jabl•58m ago

Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to reduce emissions in other parts of society.

Herring•1h ago

Humanity being the first species to go extinct because it was more profitable than continued existence.

PaulHoule•1h ago

See https://screenrant.com/far-side-gary-larson-dinosaur-extinct...

wwweston•1h ago

Not so much profit as a particular failure of accounting. Focus on privatization of profit with socialization of costs allows making staggering and possibly fatal costs someone else’s problem.

echelon_musk•52m ago

AKA externalities.

phtrivier•57m ago

Let's emulate world class leadership from the greatest country on earth, and immediately stop funding those alarmists doomsayers.

Anyway, I read on HN that AI was about to solve climate change any time now. I'm sure prompting LLMs the right way will harness the world knowledge to generatively hallucinate a way for trees to grow better.

BLKNSLVR•52m ago

I think Elon is working towards colonizing Mars because once it's all worked out, that's what Earth's environment will be like.

kibwen•44m ago

Nope, it's Venus that we're racing towards.

BLKNSLVR•51m ago

Remind me of the fantastic line:

"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment"

Herring•24m ago

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

BadBadJellyBean•6m ago

I don't even want to read these anymore. The whole climate crisis made me feel so powerless. I try to vote, I try to educate, I try to be vocal but it's all for nothing because ... I'm not even sure. I think it's stupid and greedy people.

tbrownaw•5m ago

They measure/model aboveground biomass, and present the change in that measurement as being a source/sink in the carbon cycle, ie as coming from / going to the atmosphere.

But I also see multiple places they mention the changes as being at least partly due to logging or wood harvesting. Which seems like biomass being removed and yet not going into the atmosphere.

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