The Amazon’s biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.
The biggest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, a new study finds. But these larger trees are also the ones most likely to be harvested, which means more carbon is being released into the atmosphere, thereby reducing these forests’ ability to act as carbon sinks, the researchers say. Read more in Live Science.