By Callum Smith, University of Leeds; Dominick Spracklen, University of Leeds, and Jess Baker, University of Leeds This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Tropical forests are often referred to as the “lungs of the world”, describing the way their trees exchange gases with the atmosphere. […]

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