Warming, deforestation turn Amazon into source of CO2
Hundreds of high-altitude air samples collected over the last decade showed that southeastern Amazon, in particular, has shifted from a "sink" to a source of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, they reported in the journal Nature.
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon broke its fourth consecutive monthly record in June, and swept 3,609 km2 in the first six months of the year. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)
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Climate change and deforestation have flipped a large swathe of the Amazon basin from absorbing to emitting planet-warming CO2, a transformation that could turn humanity's greatest natural ally in the