Brazil’s Amazon is now a carbon source, unprecedented study reveals

Mongabay
Jul 14, 2021, 6:07 pm248 pts
The Amazon has long done its part to balance the global carbon budget, but new evidence suggests the climate scales are tipping in the world’s largest rainforest. Now, according to a study published today in Nature, the Amazon is emitting more carbon than it captures. “The Amazon is a carbon source. No…

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