The Amazon’s CO2 Absorption
We know The Amazon is filled with a lot of trees and happens to be the home of the most infamous and largest rainforest on the planet. While we already know that dust from Africa floats over to the Amazon to help the forest grow, the Amazon gives back. The rainforest actually soaks up a lot of carbon dioxide each year. It actually soaks up roughly 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. That adds up to around 1.7 billion metric tons in the last 20 years. Of course, this is quite a lot and the Amazon is doing a good job.
However, the sad part is that emissions by the same nine nations that host the rainforest are much higher than this. Brazil alone in the last 20 years has produced 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, and this does not include the amount produced by the other eight nations. This has resulted in news stories that claim that “The Amazon emits more CO2 than it absorbs.” This is a misnomer, as the rainforest does not do this at all…it’s the nations that the rainforest is hosted by. However, this image shows the rainforest absorbing CO2. That makes us feel is it one of the most breathtaking photos captured by NASA and the ESA.