Drought is killing off trees in Brazil's fragile Amazon rain forest and depleting the region's carbon reservoirs -- an ecological double-whammy with devastating implications, according to a study published Thursday.Oh well.
Researchers said the total impact of the drought was an additional five billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere -- more than the combined annual emissions of Europe and Japan.
The research from more than 40 institutions around the world was gathered during the particularly harsh 2005 drought, which had a severe impact on the flora of the Amazon.
The drought that year dramatically reversed decades of carbon absorption, the researchers said.
March 5, 2009
Well, I needed something to replace my fear of an imminent catastrophic melting of the permafrost. Looks like I found it (via Grist):
posted by tlaskawy 8:00 PM
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