Biomass Map - from Woods Hole Research Center
Tropical rainforests store some 229 billion tons of carbon in their vegetation — about 20 percent more than previously estimated — finds a new satellite-based assessment published in the journalNature Climate Change. The findings could help improve the accuracy of reporting CO2 emissions reductions under the proposed REDD program, which aims to compensate tropical countries for cutting deforestation, forest degradation, and peatlands destruction.
Read more:http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0130-global_forest_carbon_map.html#ixzz1l2WLJQRL
