The Brazilian Amazon is a carbon source not a sink
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A new study in Nature Climate Change used satellite monitoring to measure carbon storage in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest between 2010 to 2019. The research team found that the Brazilian Amazon released more carbon than it stored in that ten-year period. Forest degradation accounted for three times more carbon loss than deforestation.
The Brazilian Amazon is a carbon source not a sink
The Brazilian Amazon is a carbon source not a…
The Brazilian Amazon is a carbon source not a sink
A new study in Nature Climate Change used satellite monitoring to measure carbon storage in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest between 2010 to 2019. The research team found that the Brazilian Amazon released more carbon than it stored in that ten-year period. Forest degradation accounted for three times more carbon loss than deforestation.