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Wildfires could flip parts of the Amazon from a carbon sponge to a source by 2050 | Increase in fires could burn up to 16% of the region by 2050 and release enough CO2 to flip parts of the forest from carbon dioxide sponge to source — exacerbating greenhouse gas warming rather than combating it https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wildfires-could-flip-parts-amazon-carbon-sponge-source-2050 4 comments 12/1/2020 worldnews

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