From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): In the time it takes you to brush your teeth tonight, Canada’s boreal forest will lose three football fields of trees.1 It’s alarming, but the culprit is softer than you think: We’re watching the boreal disappear before our … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/14/biggest-story-world-right-now-humanity-has-flipped-amazon-carbon-sink-source The findings, said one expert, “show that the uncertain future is happening now.” JESSICA CORBETT July 14, 2021 Following years of warnings and mounting fears among scientists, “terrifying” research revealed Wednesday that climate change and deforestation have turned parts of … Continued