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We’ve discovered the world’s trees absorb methane – so forests are even more important in the climate fight than we thought

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par Vincent Gauci, Professorial Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham

Tree bark in the world’s forests absorbs the greenhouse gas methane, my colleagues and I have demonstrated for the first time on a global scale – a discovery that could have big implications for tackling climate change.

As trees photosynthesise, their leaves take up carbon dioxide (CO₂) and lock it away as biomass in their trunks and branches providing a long-term store of carbon. But now, our large-scale study proves that there’s another way that trees absorb greenhouse gases – so forests can provide even…

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