Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Mongabay
Feb 9, 2022, 3:19 pm283 pts
The assumption has long been that deforestation — easily and accurately measured from satellites — poses the greatest threat to the billions of tons of carbon stored in the biomass of the Brazilian Amazon. But forest degradation due to environmental and human disturbance is responsible for the bulk of that…

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