Old-Growth Forests Store 72% More Carbon Than Managed Ones — and It's Mostly in the Soil
Everyone talks about trees when they talk about forest carbon. But the real story is underground. A new study published in Science by researchers at Lund University and Stanford finds that old-growth forests in Sweden store 72% more carbon per acre than managed forests — even when you give managed forests credit for the carbon locked in harvested wood products like lumber and furniture. Without that generous credit? The gap widens to 83%. ...