Source or sink? Trees with heart rot disease emit more methane, upending forest carbon models

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Source: Photo by Angelic Rose Hubert/Notre Dame Research

New research suggests that upland forests harboring trees with a common and incurable fungal disease known as heart rot could actually be emitting more methane than they take in, therefore releasing more greenhouse gases than previously thought. 

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