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Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns
2014-10-31 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Amazon rainforest has degraded to the point where it is losing its ability to benignly regulate weather systems, according to a stark new warning from one of Brazils leading scientists. In a new report, Antonio Nobre, researcher in the governments space institute, Earth System Science Centre, says the logging and burning of the worlds greatest forest might be connected to worsening droughts such as the one currently plaguing So Paulo and is likely to lead eventually to more extreme...
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