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Brazil

Deforestation, warming flip part of Amazon forest from carbon sink to source

July 14, 2021

New results from a nine-year research project in the eastern Amazon rainforest finds that significant deforestation in eastern and southeastern Brazil turned what was once a forest that absorbed carbon dioxide into a source of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions.

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Brazil

Deforestation, warming flip part of Amazon forest from carbon sink to source

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