From sink to source: Droughts are changing the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay
Aug 23, 2018, 10:34 pm348 pts
Because they take vast amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, rainforests are an important part of the planet’s carbon cycle and their conservation is playing front and center in major international efforts to combat global warming. But new research finds just one season of drought can reduce the…

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