{"id":28475,"date":"2024-06-21T06:49:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T04:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=28475"},"modified":"2024-06-21T06:50:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T04:50:26","slug":"studies-have-found-that-plants-store-carbon-for-a-shorter-period-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/06\/21\/studies-have-found-that-plants-store-carbon-for-a-shorter-period-than-previously-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The study found that plants store carbon for a shorter time than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon stored by plants globally is shorter-lived and more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, according to a new study.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The findings have implications for our understanding of nature&#039;s role in climate change mitigation, including the potential for mitigation projects\u00a0<a class=\"textTag\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">carbon<\/a>\u00a0nature-based, such as mass tree planting.<\/p>\n<p>Research conducted by an international team led by Dr. Heather Graven from Imperial College London and which was published in\u00a0<i>Science<\/i>\u00a0, reveals that existing climate models underestimate the amount of carbon dioxide (CO\u00a0<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0), which is absorbed annually by vegetation all over the world. it overestimates how long that carbon stays there.<\/p>\n<p>dr. Graven, Reader in Climate Physics at Imperial&#039;s Department of Physics, said: &quot;Plants around the world are actually more productive than we thought.&quot; <em>(Imperial College London, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-06-carbon-shorter-periods-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon stored by plants globally is shorter-lived and more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, according to a new study.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}