EurekAlert: With climate change looming, the hunt for places that can soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is on. Obvious “sinks” for the greenhouse gas include the oceans and the enormous trees of tropical rainforests. But temperate forests also play a role, and new research now suggests they can store more carbon than previously thought. In a study that drew on both historical and present-day datasets, Jeanine Rhemtulla of McGill University and David Mladenoff and Murray Clayton of …