Since 2018, Europe’s forests have lost 46% more biomass per hectare each year; drought and bark beetles are weakening a carbon sink that stored 72% less CO2 in 2020–2022
- Representative imageEurope’s forests are losing biomass at a rate scientists describe as unprecedented.
- A new satellite-based study has found that forests across the continent have lost, on average, 46% more aboveground biomass per hectare each year since 2018 than they did during the previous three decades.
- The change is significant because forest biomass represents stored carbon.
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- Representative imageEurope’s forests are losing biomass at a rate scientists describe as unprecedented.
- A new satellite-based study has found that forests across the continent have lost, on average, 46% more aboveground biomass per hectare each year since 2018 than they did during the previous three decades.
- The change is significant because forest biomass represents stored carbon.
Sources: Times of India