Good Newscommons.wikimedia.org Elephant's appetite coaxes forests into storing more carbon Elephants been called a lot of things: the world’s largest land creatures, imperiled, majestic, charismatic. Now scientists have a few more terms for describing them: foresters and climate champions.
Causes www.nytimes.com The thick gray line: Forest elephants defend against climate change If the species is wiped out by poachers, Africa’s vast rain forest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability, scientists estimate.