Amazon rainforest soaking up almost one-third less carbon in past decade

By Lucy Cormack
Updated March 19 2015 - 11:08pm, first published 4:26pm
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos
The Amazon: not the carbon sink many had thought. Photo: BrazilPhotos

The Amazon rainforest has long been a vital sink for the world's greenhouse gases, but new research shows the amount of carbon absorbed by the Amazon's trees has dropped by almost one-third in the past 10 years.

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