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Ancient forest fires seem to have played a role in enhancing resistance to drought in the Amazon, a recent study suggests. The research, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, focused on areas without known recent fires, but with high concentrations of pyrogenic carbon (PyC), a material found in the soil that’s produced by […]
Human Activity and Climate Change Led to Degradation of Amazon Rainforest Written by AZoCleantechMay 3 2021 According to a new study, the Brazilian Amazon rainforest discharged more carbon compared to what it stored over the past 10 years, where degradation was a major contributor compared to deforestation. Degraded forest in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image Credit: Ted Feldpausch. Over 60% of the Amazon rainforest is found in Brazil, and researchers involved in the new study employed satellite monitoring to quantify carbon storage from 2010 to 2019. The researchers discovered that degradation (dam...