{"id":81851,"date":"2025-11-30T18:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81851"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:24:28","slug":"africas-forests-are-now-emitting-more-co2-than-they-absorb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/30\/africas-forests-are-now-emitting-more-co2-than-they-absorb\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/28092419\/SEI_275982297.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>African forests are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, a fundamental shift that will make it more difficult for the world to cut its net emissions to zero.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2506287-africas-forests-are-now-emitting-more-co2-than-they-absorb\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>African forests are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, a fundamental shift that will make it more difficult for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Forest-frica.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81853,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81851\/revisions\/81853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}