Nature's Air Purifier?

Some scientists believe that rain forests, like this one in Peru, function as "carbon sinks," absorbing gases that are believed to cause global warming. One option for Japan, the EU and other parties to the Kyoto Treaty on cutting carbon-gas emissions is to pay poorer countries to protect rain forests

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