Video. How climate change is threatening one of Portugal's best carbon sinks - Euronews
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Video. How climate change is threatening one of Portugal’s best carbon sinks
For each kilogram of cork produced, the trees can capture 73 kg of CO2, according to Portugal's leading cork company.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.