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Amazonia’s forests leak carbon they once stored
Publicado em 11 de agosto de 2021
Once vital barriers to climate change, Amazonia’s forests now show how that and other human action can harm the rainforest.
LONDON, 11 August, 2021 - Part of Brazil - home to the world’s greatest rainforest - is becoming a source of greenhouse gases. What had once been a powerful machine in the climate system for absorbing carbon dioxide and cooling the planet is now playing a role in accelerating climate change. Much of Amazonia’s forests are no longer carbon sinks: now they [...]
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More carbon dioxide will dry world’s rainforests
Publicado em 07 julho 2021More carbon dioxide could parch the rainforest as effectively as the woodman’s axe or farmer’s torch. Both are on the cards. LONDON, 7 July, 2021 - Brazilian scientists have identified a new way to take the rain out of the rainforest. All the world has to do is to make sure more carbon dioxide reaches the trees - half as much again as today. The effect will be stark: it will be roughly the same as if Brazil’s business leaders, politicians and farmers cleared the entire [...]ver notícia -
Conservation pays its way handsomely
Publicado em 02 dezembro 2019Money does grow on trees. The conservation of a native forest is natural capital, its cash value often reaching trillions of dollars. LONDON, 2 December, 2019 – More than 400 scientists in Brazil have once again established that conservation pays: landscapes and people are richer for the native vegetation preserved on rural properties. They calculate that 270 million hectares (667m acres) of natural forest, scrub, marsh and grassland contained in Brazil’s legal reserves are worth [...]ver notícia -
Bolsonaro’s legal bonfire fuels Amazon inferno
Publicado em 26 agosto 2019Brazil’s president has destroyed the protection enacted by his predecessors, leaving an Amazon inferno to torch the rainforest. SÃO PAULO , 26 August, 2019 - The dry season in Brazil is only just beginning, but fires are raging throughout the rainforest, leaving an Amazon inferno, and heavy palls of sooty smoke engulfing towns and cities. The images of huge patches of Earth’s largest tropical forest being reduced to charred ashes and blackened tree stumps have alarmed the [...]ver notícia -
Drought ‘makes Amazonia emit carbon’
Publicado emDrought and fire can dry the Amazon forest to the point where instead of storing carbon it releases it to the atmosphere, several studies suggest.ver notícia