Australian Rainforests Shift from Carbon Sinks to Emission Sources
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Australia's tropical rainforests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb due to climate change-induced factors like extreme temperatures and drought, threatening their role as carbon sinks and complicating global emissions reduction efforts, according to a study in Nature.
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