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Climate change: Rainforest absorption CO2 becoming erratic
2014-01-26 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Tropical rainforests are becoming less able to cope with rising global temperatures according to a study that has looked back over the way they have responded to variations in temperature in the past half a century. For each 1C rise in temperature, tropical regions now release about 2 billion extra tonnes of carbon-containing gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, compared to the same amount of tropical warming in the 1960s and 1970s, the study found. Rising levels...
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