The Amazon is a key buffer against climate change. A new study warns wildfires could decimate it

When healthy, the Amazon rainforest is one of the planet's most critical defenses against further climate change. But a new study warns that this key barrier is in danger due to increasing wildfires, and that the forest could begin contributing more heat-trapping carbon to the atmosphere than it absorbs in the coming decades.
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