The Amazon’s Vicious Cycles

1 de janeiro de 2007

jan 1, 2007

Daniel C. Nepstad

The aim of this report is to explore the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.

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