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Amazon study finds natural brake on global warming

Global warming may be slowing as trees in the tropical forests of the Amazon are growing and dying much more quickly, new British research suggests.

The growth rate of trees in the Amazon Basin has nearly doubled in recent decades, which may have helped slow the earth from heating up, according to the research published by The Royal Society.
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But researchers also warned the change cannot be taken for granted and could be reversed by deforestation.
Logging may also be leading to more forest fires because it lets in more sunlight, which dries up the forest floor.
Saving the world's remaining rainforests also requires a committed effort to move away from burning fossil fuels, the scientists said.
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Yadvinder Malhi of the University of Edinburgh, a contributing scientist and one of the publication's editors, said: "In the 21st century, we are moving into a human-made atmospheric and climatic situation that has not been experienced on Earth for at least 20 million years.
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The journal will be available in March from the Royal Society and at http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk.

Story filed: 07:19 Wednesday 11th February 2004