Scientists form the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre, Oxford University and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development have reported that the Australian rainforests are dying twice as fast as they were in the 1980s.
After looking at 50 years' worth of data from 1970- 2019, which includes about 75,000 trees from 81 species. In the moist tropical spots of North Queensland. Scientists argue that it is because global warming is making those areas extremely dry, and the trees cannot retain as much moisture anymore. This has doubled the risk of tree death.
"It was a shock to detect such a marked increase in tree mortality, let alone a trend consistent across the diversity of species and sites we studied. A sustained doubling of mortality risk would imply the carbon stored in trees returns twice as fast to the atmosphere," said Dr David Bauman from the IRD, one of the lead researchers in the study.
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