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Caught on this site: Shirakami forest, a UNECSO World Heritage site in Japan, would be affected by global warming. What a pity!
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It is said that this vast forest land could vanish by the turn of the century due to global warming. Scientists warn that if greenhouse gas emissions remain at the current level, global warming will increase the damage caused by storm surges and cause torrential rain to fall more often.
The Shirakami Mountains are home to one of the world’s largest beech forests. However, these forests will decrease by 97.1 percent between 2031 and 2050 and vanish entirely after 2081, the study said, because the trees will be unable to adapt to the increase in temperature fast enough…
