Independent: Britains wet weather could be made worse by deforestation in the Amazon, according to a new report into the effect of the loss of vast tracts of rainforest on the worlds climate.
It has long been known that the loss of rainforest accelerates global warming because trees suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into oxygen and when they are felled, the stored carbon is released.
Now new research from the University of Virginia argues that trees are not only the lungs of the...