It is even more important to protect the boreal forest biome than most other biomes because they help reduce global warming in all of the following ways except

A) preventing the release of methane trapped in peat and permafrost beneath the forest.
B) storing massive amounts of carbon.
C) being fire resistant.
D) All of these are ways in which the boreal forest biome protects us from harmful effects of global warming.


C) being fire resistant.

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