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Carnegie Museum Of Natural History: We Get Questions - Climate Change, Hope And Action

PA Environment Daily

The student’s question during a high school environmental science class in March left me scrambling to deliver a clear and honest answer. The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere. Tell me,” she added for emphasis, “because I really want to know.”

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Forest recovery in the age of megafires – how can we predict if forests grow back?

HumanNature

Forests are incredibly good at storing carbon, in both soils and plants. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Normally when a forest regrows after a fire, it’s able to capture that carbon dioxide and store it again.