Gertrudes Freire and her family came to the great forest in search of land and rain. They found both in abundance on that day half a century ago, but the green wilds of the southwestern Amazon would prove tough to tame.
When they reached the settlement of Ouro Preto do Oeste in 1971, it was little more than a lonely rubber-tapper outpost hugging the single main road that ran through the jungle like a red dust scar.
Sitting on the porch of the family farmhouse in the sweltering heat of the Amazon dry season, Gertrudes, now 79 with neat gray hair tucked
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Amazon rainforest is emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs in some areas, study says
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(CNN) Parts of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, raising fears of the potentially devastating impact on its fragile ecosystems and a further worsening of the climate crisis, according to a new study.
The research, published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, said the Amazon s vital role as a carbon sink absorbing massive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to cool the Earth is under threat. This carbon sink seems to be in decline, the study said. Over the past 40 years, eastern Amazonia has been subjected to more deforestation, warming and moisture stress than the western part, especially during the dry season.