Amazon rainforest released more CO2 than it has absorbed since 2010
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What is the Amazon rainforest?
The Amazon rainforest is a tropical rainforest in South America. The forest is contained within 9 countries. It has 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species and is home to millions of people.
The Amazon rainforest is an important part of our planet. It helps in fighting global warming.
However, a new study says that, since 2010, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has released more carbon dioxide (CO2) than it stored. More than 60% of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil.
The reason for this is the degradation of the forest. This means the parts of the forest that are damaged but not destroyed.
Human activity and climate change are causing degradation. Cutting trees and forest fires damage the forest. Climate events, such as droughts (water shortage) also kill trees.
What else does the study say?
The study found that degradation released three times more carbon dioxide than deforestation (cutting down trees). Moreover, the study also found that deforestation increased a lot in Brazil in 2019. 3.9 million hectares of forests were lost in 2019. It was about 1 million per year in 2017 and 2018.
Scientists say that the degradation of the Amazon rainforest is an urgent problem and must be solved quickly.
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