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Trouble for forests of the northern U.S. Rockies?

06-16-2007 · Science News Online

Climate change over the coming decades may cause forests in northern portions of the U.S. Rockies to stop absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and instead become net emitters of the gas.

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