Research has found that drought and declining water availability are increasingly impeding the ability of tropical ecosystems to soak up carbon dioxide, making the tropics a less effective carbon sink. This finding comes at a time when governments and businesses are relying heavily on the effectiveness of tropical forests to take up CO2 and store […]

Related to Australia in that we have tropical forests

A recent study finds that tropical carbon sinks have become increasingly vulnerable to water scarcity since 1960, and are consequently less able to absorb carbon dioxide.

However, the authors note that significant uncertainties exist in the feedback loops between terrestrial carbon sinks and climate change, making it “difficult to predict how the land carbon sink will respond to future climate change.”

We are seeing it in the field and in remote sensing studies, and we are probably going to keep seeing it in the future.”