{"id":263450,"date":"2024-10-29T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/the-amazon-is-teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-climate-tipping-point\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:41","slug":"the-amazon-is-teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-climate-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/the-amazon-is-teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-climate-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plans to pave the Trans-Amazonian highway in Brazil could accelerate deforestation<\/p>\n

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Deforestation has pushed the Amazon to the very edge of a tipping point that would see it become a net source of CO2 and accelerate climate change, according to research using new technologies to map carbon emissions in the rainforest from 2013 to 2022.<\/p>\n

Although it is historically a carbon sink, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed during 2015-16 and 2017-18, the report by Planet Labs<\/a>, a company that provides satellite imaging, and the non-profit organisation Amazon Conservation found.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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