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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 [...]