NASA News: NASA Finds Amazon Drought Leaves Long Legacy of Damage

klippengeist (52)in #dlike • 6 years ago (edited)

A single season of drought in the Amazon rainforest can reduce the forest's carbon dioxide absorption for years after the rains return, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. This is the first study to quantify the long-term legacy of an Amazon drought.

my 2 cents:

Hm...

A drought every fifth year, more than two thirds of the Amazon forest affected by the droughts, a new paradigm on thinking about the forest's capacity to act as a natural carbon sink.. a lot of new informations to think about...

In addition to that this:

[...]
The ecosystem has become so vulnerable 
to these warming and episodic drought events 
that it can switch from sink to source 
depending on the severity and the extent
[...]

(cited from the article)

I do not feel really comfortable about this news...

What do you think?

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