Extreme El Niño weather saw South America's forest carbon sink switch off

ScienceDaily
Sep 4, 2023, 5:31 pm247 pts
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research. For a long time, tropical forests have acted as a carbon sink, taking more carbon out of the air than they release into it, a process that has…

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