Tropical trees may not be the carbon sink planet scientists have been hoping for

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from institutions in the Netherlands, Bolivia and the U.K. has found that tree ring samples taken from tropical forests show no evidence of faster growth over the past 150 years—a sign that such trees may not be the carbon sink planet scientists have been hoping for. The team has published their findings in the journal Nature Geoscience. Lucas Cernusak, of James Cook University in Australia, offers a News & Views perspective piece in the same jou