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 Stories About: Amazon AND ozone AND rainforests AND wilderness
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Bark A'Lounging
Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Messing With Amazon Ecology |
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11 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Bark A'Lounging Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Messing With Amazon Ecology Researchers have discovered that areas of the Amazon rainforest previously considered pristine are in fact undergoing drastic changes, likely due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The discovery was a bit of an accident -- researchers tracked changes in plots of isolated rainforest to use them as "controls" again ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, ozone, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics) |
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