Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario that sees the rainforest spewing carbon ...
into the atmosphere and speeding up climate change even more/ European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts/ The Amazon rainforest provides 20% of the world's oxygen, but its destruction could cause it to not only stop helping the planet, but start releasing carbon and worsening climate change./ In a "dieback" scenario, rising temperatures could dry trees, meaning they absorb less carbon and become more flammable, eventually turning the rainforest into a savannah and releasing billions of tons of stored carbon./ Researchers have ...
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