Fires of the Amazon watched closely from Boulder

As the Amazon burns at a rate higher than any year measured since 2010, the environmental crisis is being watched closely by researchers in Boulder, who have devoted years of study to the long-term implications of degradation to the planet’s forests, critical for their capacity to store carbon dioxide. Read more at Daily Camera . . .

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Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, photo by lubasi at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_the_Amazon_Rainforest.jpg