silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoParts of Canada’s Boreal Forest Are Burning Faster Than They Can Regrow | The delicate balance of one the planet’s largest natural systems for storing carbon depends on the humble black spruce tree.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkParts of Canada’s Boreal Forest Are Burning Faster Than They Can Regrow | The delicate balance of one the planet’s largest natural systems for storing carbon depends on the humble black spruce tree.www.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoRoots rot too. Otherwise the ground underneath forests would have hundreds of meters of accumulated root mass built up over the millennia.
minus-squaregirlfreddy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYes they do. But they stay underground, and if the soil remains undisturbed the carbon stays trapped underground.
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoDecay turns carbon into carbon dioxide, a gas. Unless it’s injected into deep geological structures it doesn’t stay underground.
Roots rot too. Otherwise the ground underneath forests would have hundreds of meters of accumulated root mass built up over the millennia.
Yes they do. But they stay underground, and if the soil remains undisturbed the carbon stays trapped underground.
Decay turns carbon into carbon dioxide, a gas. Unless it’s injected into deep geological structures it doesn’t stay underground.