Amazon rainforest may be more resilient to deforestation than previously thought

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The Amazon forest stores about half of the global tropical forest carbon and accounts for about a quarter of carbon absorption from the atmosphere by global forests each year. As a result, large losses of Amazonian forest cover could make global climate change worse. In the past, researchers have found that a large part of […]

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May 30, 2017 at 11:55PM