Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that underscores the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilisers. They discovered that Africa gained carbon between 2007 and 2010, but since then widespread forest loss has tipped the balance so the continent is contributing more CO 2 into the atmosphere. The authors said the results show that urgent action is needed to stop forest loss or the world risks losing one of its most important natural carbon buffers. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. after newsletter promotion“Policymakers ought to respond by putting better safeguards in place to protect the world’s tropical forests,” Balzter said.
