The Congo Basin still absorbs carbon - but how much, and for how long, is contested
The Congo Basin is the largest remaining net carbon sink in the tropics, yet published figures for how much carbon it takes up differ widely because they measure different things. At the same time, about 780,000 hectares of its primary forest were lost in 2024, and peer-reviewed work shows the wider tropical sink has been weakening since the 1990s.
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