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Planes Sampling Air Above the Amazon Find the Rainforest is Releasing More Carbon Than It Stores

posted by mrpg on Sunday July 18 2021, @04:46PM   Printer-friendly

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Planes Sampling Air Above the Amazon Find the Rainforest is Releasing More Carbon Than it Stores - Inside Climate News:

Over the last several years researchers have said that the Amazon is on the verge of transforming from a crucial storehouse for heat-trapping gasses to a source of them, a dangerous shift that could destabilize the atmosphere of the planet.

Now, after years of painstaking and inventive research, they have definitively measured that shift.

In a study published Wednesday in Nature, a team of researchers led by scientists from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, reported results from measuring carbon concentrations in columns of air above the Amazon. They found that the massive continental-size swath of tropical forest is releasing more carbon dioxide than it accumulates or stores, thanks to deforestation and fires.

“There is no doubt that the Amazon is a source,” said Luciana Gatti, the lead author of the study.

Journal Reference:
Luciana V. Gatti, Luana S. Basso, John B. Miller, et al. Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change, Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03629-6)

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday July 18 2021, @09:50PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Sunday July 18 2021, @09:50PM (#1157699)

    They found that the massive continental-size swath of tropical forest is releasing more carbon dioxide than it accumulates or stores, thanks to deforestation and fires.

    Worth noting pulling off this wonder of click-bait shilling required the collaboration of both author and editor so Inside Climate News [insideclimatenews.org]'s readers will likely be better off getting their news from elsewhere.

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