Australian Forests Store Carbon

(16 Jun 09 - RV) Scientists at the Australian National University today said ancient Australian forests are key to fighting climate change and contain the world's most dense carbon store, eclipsing tropical rainforests as efficient greenhouse gas absorbers.
Brendan Mackey is a professor of environment science at the Australia National University. He says the findings overturn conventional thinking about the carbon density of different forest types that, until now, held that tropical rainforests were the most carbon-dense...