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		jamesdmiller on Aug 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Does the Amazon provide 20% of our oxygen? Where do they put it? Wouldn't this require the total biomass of the rainforest to be continually increasing?

sp332 on Aug 25, 2019 [–]

Old growth forests are not carbon-neutral. Models had to be adjusted after this study in 2008: https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Global-Warming/2008/09...

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