The great sweep of the earth’s atmosphere is no longer dense forest of the Amazon, but the african Congo basin. If the vast south american jungle was so far considered to be the most powerful slayer of carbon, today, this work is essential to the health of the Planet are the best in the forests of the black Continent, which absorb the vast majority of global CO2 emissions. To reveal it is a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature, which warns against the risks linked to the growing weakness of the Amazon in the capture and transform carbon dioxide.

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