Helping forests flourish as valuable "carbon sinks" long into the future may require reducing their capacity to absorb carbon now.

要想让森林成为有价值的“碳汇”并一直持续到未来很长一段时间，就需要降低它们现在吸收碳的能力。

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Also the ability of the planet, particularly the ocean, to absorb carbon was less than we assumed.

此外，地球——尤其是海洋吸收碳的能力远远低于我们的假设。

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Some smaller changes are arguably more ominous, like a recent drop in the southern seas' ability to absorb carbon.

一些细小的变化可能更危险，比如南方海域吸收二氧化碳的能力最近下降了。

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West Africa's mangrove forests absorb thousands of tons of carbon dioxide, and could be a way for the region to get a foothold in the $136-billion carbon world market.

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Growth in the world economy, increased fossil fuel emissions since 2000 and a decline in the efficiency of the ocean and land 'sinks' to absorb carbon emissions.

CNN: Topical waters

Writing in the journal Nature in 2007, researchers found that concentrations of the greenhouse gas near the ground also damaged plants sensitive to the gas, reducing their effectiveness to absorb carbon dioxide.

BBC: Invasive plant 'increases ozone pollution'

Equally initiatives such as REDD and other attempts to pay tree growers to absorb carbon usually have a pretty short shelf life as donors tend to move on to focus on other priorities.

ECONOMIST: Letters