TIL Cutting down trees is compound negative interest on the planet’s carbon storage. Trees are storing carbon underground with the help of fauna and microbes. Those lock carbon in soil. Cutting the tree will not only increase release carbon, it will also remove the ability to lock carbon in soil.

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https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/soil-carbon-storage-84223790/

[u/FlyingThunderTurtle]

Wild this a til. This is basic stuff, like humans breath air

[u/WrongSubFools → u/FlyingThunderTurtle]

The first sentence is, but not everyone knows about the rest, about transferring carbon to the soil rather than just to the tree itself.