Amazon Update...
Warming of the North Atlantic has led to drought and deforestation. The Hadley Climate Model - developed , run and used by the UK Met Office - predicts that global warming will increase the chances of further droughts in the Amazon by 50 per cent.
Logging in the Amazon continues to cause alarm with 1,250 sq miles (3,235 sq/km) lost in the last five months of 2007 alone.The effect is a depletion of the region's carbon reservoir's. Research by more than 40 instituitions during the 2005 Amazon basin drought shows that loss of vegetation released an extra 5 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere: more than the combined annual emissions of Europe and Japan. This reversed decades of carbon absorption.
South East Asia ...
Has the highest deforestation rate of all three rainforest regions.
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