News Headline

More than half of Europe's forests vulnerable to climate-related hazards

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-02-24

Climate change has made Europe's forests more vulnerable to hazards like fires, insect outbreaks, windthrows, or a combination of these three, according to a new JRC study.More than 60% of the biomass in these forests is exposed to these risks- over 33 billion tons in total—putting the future role of forests for wood provision or carbon sequestration under growing uncertainty.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-02-europe-forests-vulnerable-climate-related-hazards.html