Plans to pave Brazil’s trans-Amazon highway could accelerate deforestation
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Deforestation has made the Amazon a net source of carbon dioxide, pushing it to the brink of a tipping point that accelerates climate change, according to a study using new technology to map rainforest carbon emissions from 2013 to 2022. It became clear that there was.
Despite historically being a carbon sink, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed in 2015-16 and 2017-18, according to satellite imagery provider Planet Labs and This was revealed in a report by the for-profit organization Amazon Conservation.
(Tag to translate) Climate change
