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Dried Out Amazon Could Speed Up Climate Change

2014-12-11 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: A new NASA-funded study has found that a dried out Amazon, which has experienced a decline in rainfall over the last decade, could speed up global climate change due to the subsequent drop in vegetation. And global climate models predict that things are only going to get more arid for the region in the future. The Amazon's tropical rainforests are one of the largest sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on the planet. They store an estimated 120 billion tons of Earth's carbon - that's...

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