Over-hunting in Amazon Rainforest threatens global carbon budget

Threats to the Carbon-Storing Capacity of the Amazon Rainforest

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The vast forests of the Amazon rainforest stores enormous amounts of carbon. All that help moderate the Earth’s temperature. However, a study shows that over-hunting in the Amazon rainforest is threatening its carbon-storing capacity. There’s a wide-scale reduction of large fruit-eating mammals such as primates and tapirs. Subsequently, the disbursement of seeds…

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biological diversity

Understanding Climate Change on Biodiversity Ecosystems

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 is more than overwhelming news. Biodiversity is also a fundamental building block of the services that ecosystems deliver to human societies. Intrinsically important because of its contribution to the functioning of ecosystems. Essentially biodiversity. So the variation of life at the genetic, species and ecosystem…

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Australian Wildfires plus Temperatures are No Joke!

So Australian residents are really bracing through severe fires across NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. As the Guardian reports, all of Australia’s mainland states, and the Northern Territory, had areas that reached more than 40C on Wednesday. That’s as residents were warned it was too late to leave as two serious bushfires hit areas of South…

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