Poor Amazon Rains Linked To Brazil Deforestation 20
For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new study, published on Tuesday, found that about 75% of the decrease in rainfall is directly linked to deforestation. From a report: The study, in Nature Communications, also found that tree loss was partly responsible for increased heat across the Amazon. Since 1985, the hottest days in the Amazon have warmed by about 2 degrees Celsius. About 16% of that increase, the researchers found, was because of deforestation.
Marco Franco, an assistant professor at the University of Sao Paulo who led the study, said he was surprised by the findings. "We were expecting to see deforestation as a driver, but not this much," he said. "It tells us a lot about what's going on in the biome." The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet because its trees help to regulate the global climate by absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. But decades of large-scale logging and burning in the forest have recently flipped that script, and parts of the region have become net producers of greenhouse gases.
Marco Franco, an assistant professor at the University of Sao Paulo who led the study, said he was surprised by the findings. "We were expecting to see deforestation as a driver, but not this much," he said. "It tells us a lot about what's going on in the biome." The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet because its trees help to regulate the global climate by absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. But decades of large-scale logging and burning in the forest have recently flipped that script, and parts of the region have become net producers of greenhouse gases.
We're doomed (Score:2)
https://youtu.be/V7NlFWh7Sz8 [youtu.be]
News? (Score:2)
Hasn't it been long understood that the rainforests were self-perpetuating ecosystems?
Re: News? (Score:1)
So is Pacific Northwest drought due to Olympic rainforest logging?
Obvious (Score:4, Insightful)
Most of the rain in a rain forest comes from transpiration from the rain forest itself. This is well known.
Brazil is destroying itself, because it is unwilling to get serious about illegal logging, agriculture and mining
Humans Are Morons (Score:2, Troll)
Because Brazil is unique in creating the conditions of its own devastation...
Re: (Score:2)
Because Brazil is unique in creating the conditions of its own devastation...
That this is a repeated pattern and in fact the dominant paradigm doesn't change that what the GP said is true.
Re: (Score:2)
Why are you phrasing that as some kind of a counterpoint or gotchya? No of course Brazil isn't unique, but this story is about Brazil so I'm not sure how it changes for Brazil to point out that other places do this to themselves as well.
You were modded Troll but really your mod should be Offtopic.
Re: Obvious (Score:2)
What if they do what Washington state does and just make over harvesting legal, rubber-stamped by a Board that willfully ignores public comments?
Re: (Score:2)
You probably can trace it back to some stupid decision the militar dictatorship did, many issues of Brazil can.
Their insistence in trying to populate the entire Brazil by force led to some pretty bizarre consequences that plague Brazil to this day.
And before you come with "left-right" stuff, the militar dictatorship is "dumbass wing", not left, nor right.
Re: Also from the NY Times.... (Score:1)
Since the shooter says they did it because they were sick of "constant bills" and "shitty jobs", could a basic income have prevented it?
Bomb Brazil! (Score:4, Funny)
Blame Bolsonaro, Brazil's Trump (Score:3)
https://www.vox.com/down-to-ea... [vox.com]
Brazil was smart enough to get rid of him, USA your same chance is in Nov 2026 and might be your one and only chance