{"id":411,"date":"2013-08-19T11:12:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2013-08-19T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:12:58","slug":"european-forests-near-carbon-saturation-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/european-forests-near-carbon-saturation-point\/","title":{"rendered":"European forests near &#8216;carbon saturation point&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2005, the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by Europe&#8217;s trees has been slowing, researchers report in a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in Nature Climate Change, the report said this was a result of a declining volume of trees, deforestation and the impact of natural disturbances.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qT8aFpabt-E?feature=player_detailpage\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carbon sinks play a key role in the global carbon cycle and are promoted as a way to offset rising emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Gert-Jan Nabuurs from Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands, said: &#8220;All of this together means that the increase in the size of the sink is stopping; it is even declining a little.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see this as the first signs of a saturating sink,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>As we have said all along, we ALL need to plant more trees, it is a Win \/ Win situation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree?<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/10251420\/European-forests-close-to-carbon-saturation-point.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/higher-education\/european-forest-carbon-sink-near-saturation-point\/story-e6frgcjx-1226698688613\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenisp.net%2Fblog%2Feuropean-forests-near-carbon-saturation-point%2F&amp;text=European+forests+near+%27carbon+saturation+point%27&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2005, the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by Europe&#8217;s trees has been slowing, researchers report in a new study. Writing in Nature Climate Change, the report said this was a result of a declining volume of trees, deforestation and the impact of natural disturbances. Carbon sinks play a key role in the global carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-green-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}