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Can we rely on forests to soak up the extra CO2 in the atmosphere?


A forest in Staffordshire, UK, where an experiment is testing how trees respond to higher levels of carbon dioxide in the air
Shomari Healy, used by kind permission
Tucked away down a quiet country lane in the UK’s West Midlands region lies one of the most studied patches of forest in the world.
This fragment of woodland, populated mainly by 180-year-old English oak trees (Quercus robur), is at the heart of a major global project to understand how the world’s forests will cope as levels of carbon dioxide rise in the atmosphere.
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