Climate – The forced adaptation of French forests

Lhe data surprised researchers around the world. Ravaged three years ago by megafires that wiped out 15% of the country’s forest area, the Australian forest, barely a year later, had recovered all its biomass and reabsorbed all of the 200 million tonnes of carbon released. at the time in the atmosphere. Stunningly fast resilience, measured in a study by French researchers from Inrae (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment) and CEA (Commissariat for Atomic Energy and to alternative energies) using satellite images to estimate the volume of biomass. “The year following the fires was particularly wet, which encouraged the regrowth of vegetation…

MATHIEU PATTIER/SIPA – Neal Herbert/Doi/ZUMA Press/REA – Matthew Abbott/PANOS-REA