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Poor Amazon Rains Linked To Brazil Deforestation
Tuesday September 2, 2025. 08:01 PM , from Slashdot
![]() Marco Franco, an assistant professor at the University of Sao Paulo who led the study, said he was surprised by the findings. 'We were expecting to see deforestation as a driver, but not this much,' he said. 'It tells us a lot about what's going on in the biome.' The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet because its trees help to regulate the global climate by absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. But decades of large-scale logging and burning in the forest have recently flipped that script, and parts of the region have become net producers of greenhouse gases. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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