Alekya Ettaboina April 1, 2015

Australian international team of scientists with their 20 years of satellite data analysis on the total amount of vegetation in the world has come with surprising results of increased growth in the carbon capture.

20 years of satellite data analysis of Australian international team of scientists on the amount of vegetation in the world has told a new thing that the global forest loss is decreased and carbon capture increased.

As written in the Nature Climate Change journal, the experts and study authors said, “Existing global estimates of aboveground biomass carbon (ABC) based on field survey data provide brief snapshots that are mainly limited to forest ecosystems”.

The scientists’ team used satellite measurements of natural radio waves that are emitted from the Earth’s surface and developed an extremely new technique in order to map changes in vegetation.

In the research, the team of intelligence found that the forest and vegetation has grown at a rate of 4 billion tonnes of carbon since 2003 instead of high deforestation in the tropical region.

This decline is on the edge of the Amazon forests and in the Indonesian provinces of Sumatra and Kalimantan. In spite of these things in the environment, it’s a lucky combination of environmental, economic factors and massive tree-planting projects that happened in China, said Dr Yi Liu.

“Vegetation increased on the savannahs in Australia, Africa and South America as a result of increasing rainfall, while in Russia and former Soviet republics we have seen the regrowth of forests on abandoned farmland,” Dr Liu explained.

Co-author Professor Albert van Dijk, Australian National University said that this happened unexpectedly but for the good cause of the people in the world only.

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