Amazon Inhales More Carbon than It Emits, NASA Finds - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Amazon Inhales More Carbon than It Emits, NASA Finds - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Old-growth Amazon tree canopy in Tapajós National Forest, Brazil. A new NASA study shows that the living trees in the undisturbed Amazon forest draw more carbon dioxide from the air than the forest's dead trees emit. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech