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1. Ability of forests to store carbon and mitigate the climate emergency and for the endangered wildlife that depends on rich, ancient forests
2. Impact of forest destruction had cut the area of old growth forest by a third since 1900
3. Global heating cuts growth and increases tree deaths by limiting photosynthesis and causing stress and also, high temperatures, drought, high storm winds and pests and disease affect older trees more, and are rising
4. Climate change is accelerating tree mortality, increasingly pushing the world’s forests towards being both younger and shorter
5. Increasing in frequency and severity of human land use change, and disturbances like wildfires and insect outbreaks and droughts causing smaller and younger forests
6. A lot of old forests have been replaced by non-forests and young forests affecting biodiversity, climate mitigation, and forestry
7. Satellite data analysis on land-use change estimated human had cut total forest area by 12% since 1900
8. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could increase tree growth only in younger forests with abundant nutrients and water
9. Protecting the existed forest to grow to its maturity could capture a lot of additional carbon
10.Tropical and boreal forests are like carbon sinks, slowing climate change, however future mortality could reverse the trends
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