Growing deforestation: ‘Forests crucial in regulating climate’

ISLAMABAD: Environmental and climate experts have said that forests play a critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate through carbon cycle. They said that massive deforestation was the main cause of increase in chlorofluoro carbons (CFCs) as trees were the main source of absorbing these gases. Chairman of department of Forestry Pir Mehar Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Mirza Sarwat Naz Beg stressed that forests play a critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate through the carbon cycle. He said that the green cover removes carbon from the atmosphere as trees are having a good store of carbon in leaves, woody tissue, roots and organic matter in soil.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th,  2016.