Australia’s tropical forests now emit CO₂, clouding the COP30 talks

Australia’s tropical forests are the world’s first to flip a worrisome switch. The forests are now putting more carbon into the atmosphere than they are taking out, researchers report in the Oct. 16 Nature.

That switch is a clanging alarm bell for the planet’s tropical forests, sounding as world leaders prepare to gather in the heart of the Amazon rainforest to wrangle over how to address the crisis of global climate change. The 30th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, begins November 10 in Belém, Brazil.

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