Amazon rainforest is drying out. How much more abuse can it take?
Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Preserving its trees is crucial to meeting international targets that limit global warming Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity. Of course, droughts have hit the Amazon rainforest throughout paleoclimate history, but this time …
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