Scientists have good evidence that old forests store more can carbon dioxide than they release into the atmosphere by decay and by respiration. Most believed that old forests were carbon sinks, with the carbon dioxide that the forest stored each year being the same quantity or less than the carbon emitted by the natural decay of vegetation.
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