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Drought stalls tree growth and shuts down Amazon carbon sink, researchers find
2016-07-06 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin's carbon sink, by killing trees and slowing their growth, a ground-breaking study led by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Leeds has found. Previous research has suggested that the Amazon -the most extensive tropical forest on Earth and one of the "green lungs" of the planet -- may be gradually losing its capacity to take carbon from the atmosphere. This new study, the most extensive land-based study of the effect of drought on Amazonian...
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