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By The Mail |
15 November 2010 |
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THE MAIL - Preserving Africa's surviving tropical forests and planting new trees to replace those lost to deforestation could help reduce the severity of climate change by absorbing more carbon from the air, and ease the local impact of climate change by regulating local weather conditions, scientists have said. They also cite the forests' roles as watersheds, defences against soil erosion and conservation pools for biodiversity.
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