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The research on CO2
is published in the
"Nature". Researchers analysed 600
of CO2 emissions produced by fires at
in Brazil's Amazon between 2010 and 2018. They found the fires produced about 1.5 billion tons of CO2 a year, while forest
removed just 0.5 billion tons. The
of one billion tons is equivalent to the
emissions of Japan - the world's fifth-largest
. Researcher Professor Simon Lewis said: "The south-east Amazon sink-to-source
is yet another stark warning that climate
are accelerating."
