Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees in Two Days

Photo via TomekY If you thought unscrupulous logging practices were the only threat to the world’s largest rainforest, then think again. According to a new study, one extremely powerful storm in 2005 resulted in the deaths of an estimated 441 million to 663 million trees along the Amazon basin in just a matter of days, releasing an untold amount of carbon into the atmosphere. What’s worse is that as global temperatures rise from CO2 emissions worldwide,

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Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees in Two Days

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