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Amazon rainforest: Lungs of the world has lost a 10th of its trees in 5 decades [1]

More than one-tenth of trees in the Amazon rainforest have been removed since the 1960s, contributing to a 1.5% rise in carbon dioxide levels since then.

Publication Date: 
22/04/2015
International Business Times [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Deforestation [4], Amazon [5], Trees [6], Carbon Dioxide [7], Carbon Sinks [8]

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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
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