New research: A burning issue
Natural climate solutions (NCS), the uptake of carbon from the atmosphere by ecological processes to mitigate climate change, are a topic of intense interest. … The State of California has ambitious plans for NCS but Wang et al. [2022] show that patterns of land use, drought and wildfire put these plans at risk. The team demonstrates that California lost ~7% of its forest cover with losses due to fire exceeding gains and more than balancing regrowth after fire. Losses were higher in the warmer regions of the state, and gains more frequent in the cooler regions, suggesting that continued warming will put additional regions at increased risk.
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