Study shows Amazon rainforest is producing more CO2 than usual
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Over the course of nine years, researchers led by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research flew over 600 times over four major sites in the Brazilian Amazon, gathering data on the quantity of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere. They discovered that these four sites produce 410 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, primarily as a result of big fires, which are frequently started by humans.