The Amazon rainforest is officially creating more greenhouse gases than it is absorbing
1 min readIllustration: The team’s map shows how deforestation in the eastern Amazon (orange arrows) is directly linked to carbon emissions and wildfires (blue and red bars). (Image credit: Luciana Gatti, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research). Article by
The rainforest was a carbon sink. Now, humans have turned it into a carbon factory.
Forests absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from Earth’s atmosphere, making them a key part of mitigating climate change. But humans may have already rendered the world’s largest rainforest useless in — and perhaps even detrimental to — the battle against greenhouse gases, a new study finds. […]