The Amazon’s “CO₂ Problem”? Turns Out the Trees Love It – So Does the Media

The Amazon’s “CO₂ Problem”? Turns Out the Trees Love It – So Does the Media

by Anthony Watts, Watts Up With That: For decades, we’ve been warned that the Amazon rainforest—the so-called “lungs of the planet”—was on the verge of collapse. Headlines screamed about tipping points, mass die-offs of giant trees, and irreversible climate catastrophe. Yet, buried in the data, something rather inconvenient has been happening: the Amazon is getting […]

The Amazon’s “CO₂ Problem”? Turns Out the Trees Love It ...

CO₂ fertilization is no longer a theory tested only in labs. This study confirms it at continental scale: Amazon forests are thriving, not suffering, in a world with more CO₂