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In the next decade, the Amazon rainforests will begin emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than absorb it. The results of a scientific study are published in the journal Nature.
According to the authors of the study, when the trees die, they begin to emit more carbon dioxide. Despite the fact that this a natural process, it entails catastrophic consequences due to climate change, as well as fires, deforestation forests and increased emissions of greenhouse gases. In the end after all, the tropics will not be able with so many greenhouse gases to cope.
Thirty years ago, the forests of the Amazon were “recycled” approximately 17 percent of gases generated by human activities. However, by 2010, the area of the Amazon was reduced by 19 percent, however, the amount of harmful emissions increased by 46 percent. As a result – the forests of Amazonia now absorb only 6 percent of greenhouse gases produced by humans.
According to The Guardian, over twenty for years, Amazonia has “absorbed” so many greenhouse gas emissions, how much does France, Britain, Germany and Canada produce in for ten years.
In their study, scientists noted that African forests are waiting the same unenviable fate, but two years later. It turns out African tropics, while it is not clear for what reason, less subject to intense droughts than the forests of the Amazon.
