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Forests began to harm people
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Rainforests have become a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions due to the frequent fires and deforestation that farmers arrange to clear land for growing soybeans or raising livestock.
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil, the largest in the world, has become hazardous to the planet’s ecology. Writes about this The Guardian.
“People think that converting more land to agriculture will increase productivity. In fact, humanity is suffering losses due to negative environmental impacts. Brazil’s soybean industry is losing $ 3.5 billion a year due to the extreme heat that followed destruction of forests “, – say the Brazilian scientists.
The fact is that due to massive fires and logging, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by trees exceeded the amount of harmful emissions they absorbed from the air.
If just ten years ago the forest was the main sink of CO2, contributing to global warming, now it itself is leading to a climate catastrophe. Amazon produces 1.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas every year, while consuming only half a billion.
All this is due to fires and felling, as well as due to abnormal drought.
“Burning forests produces about three times as much CO2 as forests can absorb. Another bad news is that where deforestation is a third or more of the area, carbon emissions are ten times higher than places where felling is less than 20 percent, “experts say.
As a reminder, the Organization stated earlier that drought could “turn into the next pandemic“- risks grow with warming.
Record heat in Antarctica – UN
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