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Lianas are spreading in tropical forests, harming trees and cutting carbon storage. They thrive on rising CO2 and show up in satellite images. Scientists call for climate action, not removal. A pandemic of lianas is rapidly spreading through tropical forests, reducing their capacity to store carbon and weakening their ability to slow climate change…
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This “Cheater” Plant Is Taking Over the Rainforests – And It’s Visible From Space
Rianne Lindhout Leiden University
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Lianas are spreading in tropical forests, harming trees and cutting carbon storage. They thrive on rising CO2 and show up in satellite images. Scientists call for climate action, not removal. A pandemic of lianas is rapidly spreading through tropical forests, reducing their capacity to store carbon and weakening their ability to slow climate change…
