{"id":37785,"date":"2009-04-22T21:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=37785"},"modified":"2009-04-22T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:10:15","slug":"chinas-forests-have-role-in-soaking-up-co2-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/chinas-forests-have-role-in-soaking-up-co2-study\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Forests Have Role in Soaking Up CO2 &#8211; Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alister Doyle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSLM246820\">Reuters reports<\/a> on the role of Chinese forests in carbon dioxide absorption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A study by Peking University said that increased summer rains, efforts to plant forests, an expansion of shrubland, shifts in crop use and higher bamboo mass soaked up between 28 and 37 percent of industrial emissions in the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The study gave the first estimate of the impact of plants in offsetting carbon dioxide emissions in China, which has recently overtaken the United States as top emitter. Plants soak up carbon as they grow and release it when they burn or rot.<\/p>\n<p>The report, in the journal Nature, also said that China&#8217;s plants and soils soaked up more carbon per square metre than in Europe but less than in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But a U.S. scientist said the percentage of emissions absorbed by plants was falling because a surge in economic growth in recent years meant China&#8217;s industrial emissions were expanding faster than vegetation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alister Doyle of Reuters reports on the role of Chinese forests in carbon dioxide absorption: A study by Peking University said that increased summer rains, efforts to plant forests, an expansion of shrubland, shifts in crop use and higher bamboo mass soaked up between 28 and 37 percent of industrial emissions in the 1980s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[581,5784],"class_list":["post-37785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-crisis","category-society","tag-forests","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China&#039;s Forests Have Role in Soaking Up CO2 - Study<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/chinas-forests-have-role-in-soaking-up-co2-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China&#039;s Forests Have Role in Soaking Up CO2 - Study\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alister Doyle of Reuters reports on the role of Chinese forests in carbon dioxide absorption: A study by Peking University said that increased summer rains, efforts to plant forests, an expansion of shrubland, shifts in crop use and higher bamboo mass soaked up between 28 and 37 percent of industrial emissions in the 1980s and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/chinas-forests-have-role-in-soaking-up-co2-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-04-23T04:08:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-04-23T04:10:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paulina Hartono\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paulina Hartono\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/chinas-forests-have-role-in-soaking-up-co2-study\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/chinas-forests-have-role-in-soaking-up-co2-study\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Paulina Hartono\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/9ebe10b96a6c7b89ce7f8e6f6209da16\"},\"headline\":\"China&#8217;s Forests Have Role in Soaking Up CO2 &#8211; 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