The Amazon rainforest is officially creating more greenhouse gases than it is absorbing

Illustration: 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 Brandon Specktor – Senior Writer. Live Science – July 15, 2021.

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. […]

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