Amazon rainforest deforestation threatens carbon sink function, per study by Amazon Conservation.

Amazon rainforest, storing nearly two years of global carbon emissions, faces risk due to deforestation, warns a study by U.S. nonprofit Amazon Conservation. Satellite data reveals the forest's carbon storage increased by 64.7 million metric tons since 2013. However, ongoing deforestation threatens its role as a carbon sink, with the risk of it becoming a carbon source instead, releasing more carbon into the atmosphere.