Amazon drought led to huge CO2 emissions

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 16:01 in Earth & Climate

A widespread drought in the Amazon rain forest last year was worse than the "once-in-a-century" dry spell in 2005 and may have a bigger impact on global warming than the United States does in a year, scientists said on Thursday.

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