March 19, 1999

Forest Study Reopens Question of Atmospheric Carbon's Fate

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Measurements of forest growth have reopened a long-standing debate among scientists: What happens to carbon dioxide after civilization dumps it into the atmosphere?

Forests in the Northern Hemisphere are not growing fast enough in response to fossil-fuel burning to absorb as much of the extra carbon released in combustion as scientists had thought, according to an article in the March 11 issue of

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