Brazil’s Amazon has ‘flipped’ and now emits more carbon pollution than it sinks

[Curious layman]

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The Brazilian Amazon, where dense rainforest was long believed to be absorbing human-caused pollution, has emitted close to one-fifth more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than it has stored.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/brazil-e2-80-99s-amazon-has-e2-80-98flipped-e2-80-99-and-now-emits-more-carbon-pollution-than-it-sinks/ar-BB1gjOir?ocid=BingNews

[iNow]

I’m shocked to see that deforestation increases emissions and decreases absorption. Shocked, I tells ya. 

Humans often suck. 

[swansont]

The Amazon didn’t emit the CO2. Human action did.

“Researchers compared the volume of CO2 sunk into the forest to the volumes released by fires or cutting down trees.”