Plunging snowpack levels may be curbing carbon storage capabilities of trees: Study

Declining snowfall accumulation successful the mountains of the northeastern U.S. volition apt trim the quality of forests to enactment arsenic a c sink, a caller survey has found. The shrinking snowpack and destructive freeze-thaw cycles present communal successful wintertime are damaging roots and decreasing rates of nutrient and c uptake, according to the study, published…