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#BREAKING Since 2010, Amazon forest emitted more CO2 than it absorbed: study

#UPDATE The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20% more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a stunning report that shows humanity can no longer depend on the world's largest tropical forest to help absorb man-made carbon pollution

"We don't know at what point the changeover could become irreversible," said co-author Jean-Pierre Wigneron, a scientist at France's National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA)
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Brazil's Amazon rainforest released nearly 20 percent more carbon dioxide over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a report showing that humans can no longer depend on the world's largest tropical forest to help absorb man-made carbon pollution u.afp.com/UWp2