Forest help reduce greenhouse effect by?

Answer 1

Forests are made up of trees and other plants. These use carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas that is created by industry) and converts it into food and oxygen. The more forests there are the more carbon dioxide gets converted back into oxygen.

Trees are tremendous devices for capturing and storing carbon. If we were to ask our top scientists and engineers to create a highly efficient and environmentally friendly way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. They could do no better than to invent a tree. Trees use photosynthesis to capture and concentrate carbon, removing trace CO2 gas from the air (<4/100th of 1%) and building trees that are fully 50% carbon by weight.

Old-growth forests have the capacity to store more carbon per acre than any ecosystem on earth. This represents both a problem and an opportunity. The problem is that logging old growth forests and converting them to young tree farms has contributed disproportionately to global warming. For instance, over the last century, logging on the westside of Oregon and Washington released at least 1.5 billion net metric tons of carbon emissions, which is 100 times more carbon emissions from land use compared to the global average for any similar sized area. After clearcutting, logged sites can remain sources of CO2 for 20 years or more, and carbon stores on logged sites are not fully recovered for centuries.

What about carbon capture and storage? That's the opportunity. Past practices have left millions of acres of forests are in a state of recovery from past logging. Those growing forests are already absorbing some greenhouse gas emissions. We can increase carbon capture and storage in forest vegetation and soils by changing our land management practices. Forests will grow and store more carbon … if only we will log them less and let them grow more. A good climate strategy would restore young forests to their former glory as healthy older forests.

To help young forests develop into healthy old forests and make them more resilient to global climate change, foresters can thin some of the dense young tree plantations, and remove small fuels from some of the dry forests suffering as a result of fire exclusion. The focus must be on removing only small trees. The large trees should be protected so they can store carbon and provide other values, such as clean drinking water, habitat for fish and wildlife, and quality of life.

A:Trees take in CO2, store the carbon and release the oxygen.

Trees need Carbon Dioxide in order to photosynthesize. Since CO2 is the leading contributor to global warming, having the trees take it out of the atmosphere to be converted into oxygen, slows the process somewhat.

Answer 2

Forests reduce greenhouse effect by absorbing carbon dioxide. Being carbon dioxide as the primary greenhouse gas, the greenhouse effect is reduced drastically.