Friday, July 16, 2021

Amazon

  File this under, 'We are so f-d'.

Washington Post: The Amazon rainforest is the world’s carbon sink. Parts of it now release more carbon than can be absorbed. By Rachel Pannett

A study recently published in the journal Nature suggests that fire and deforestation, along with warmer temperatures and markedly drier conditions, mean the world’s largest rainforest is gradually losing its ability to be a carbon sink.

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