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Good news on rain forests: they bounce back strong, storing more carbon than thought

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imageYoung secondary forest in Costa Rica, with old-growth trees visible in the background.Susan G. Letcher, CC BY-SA

When you cut and burn a tropical forest, you’re left with a barren plain of cracked red mud, incapable of supporting life – the opposite of the teeming, hyperdiverse array of life that was destroyed. Once the trees are gone,...

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