Mongabay: Studying nearly a hundred and fifty years of tropical storm landfalls in the United States, researchers have discovered that the storm systems have a sizeable impact on forest carbon sinks due to the large-scale destruction of trees. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that on average tropical storm systems impact 97 million trees in the United States, mostly in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana, although the east coast’s forests also proved …