Amazon rainforest canopy (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Amazon rainforest canopy

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The Amazon rainforest is being hit with more days of extreme drought that is leading to tree die-offs that will change the nature of these tropical sinks of carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels.

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Jeffrey Chambers/UC Berkeley

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