Rainforest at the foot of Mount Duasudara in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The earth's forests, currently around 4 billion hectares in total, remain a net-sink for carbon dioxide, which collectively emit 8.1 billion metric tons of carbon each year and absorb 16 billion metric tons, according to Jennifer Fergesen in her article published on Time on October 18, 2022. Southeast Asia's tropical rainforests are one of the world's three largest systems that are the lungs of the earth, along with the Amazon and Congo River Basin.

Rainforest at the foot of Mount Duasudara in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The earth's forests, currently around 4 billion hectares in total, remain a net-sink for carbon dioxide, which collectively emit 8.1 billion metric tons of carbon each year and absorb 16 billion metric tons, according to Jennifer Fergesen in her article published on Time on October 18, 2022. Southeast Asia's tropical rainforests are one of the world's three largest systems that are the lungs of the earth, along with the Amazon and Congo River Basin. Stock Photo

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Rainforest at the foot of Mount Duasudara in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The earth's forests, currently around 4 billion hectares in total, remain a net-sink for carbon dioxide, which collectively emit 8.1 billion metric tons of carbon each year and absorb 16 billion metric tons, according to Jennifer Fergesen in her article published on Time on October 18, 2022._ Southeast Asia's tropical rainforests are one of the world's three largest systems that are the lungs of the earth, along with the Amazon and Congo River Basin. However, she wrote, Southeast Asia's rainforest are now a net source or carbon emissions due to fires, clearing for plantations, and peat soil drainage. The Amazon rainforest—the largest—is on the brink of becoming a net source due to similar disturbances. Only the second largest, the Congo River Basin, is the rainforest within the top three that still a significant carbon sink.

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