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  • This must be the hardest way to investigate why the trees of the Amazon so important climbing right up into them, get down on the ground.

  • A scientist, Erica Berenger, is asking for samples of the leads.

  • Erica has studied the same batch of trees for 10 years now, measuring exactly how they're growing and how they affect the climate.

  • This matters to the whole world because of the sheer size of this forest.

  • We've used graphics to show how the billions of leaves a breathing in carbon dioxide, a gas which is heating up the planet as human activity keeps adding Maur on Mork carbon dioxide to the air.

  • Magnificent trees like this pull a lot of it in, but chop it down and burn it on a ll.

  • The carbon that's been stored inside over the many years is suddenly released back to the atmosphere, which, of course, increases the speed of global warming.

  • In the last few months, the rate of deforestation here has suddenly increased.

  • The new government of Brazil wants to encourage development, So Erica's research is all the more urgent in this lab.

  • She studies the leaves collected from the forest to work out how much carbon the Amazon holes.

  • It's the equivalent of America burning fossil fuels for nearly a century, we're never gonna be able to build an Amazon.

  • It's gonna be gone forever.

  • So once it's going to just go on, all that's left where Forest once stood, a stark reminder of what's vanishing and of consequences for the rest of the world.

  • We've used graphics to show how the billions of leaves a breathing in carbon dioxide.

  • The billions of leaves.

  • A breathing in carbon dioxide gas, which is heating up the planet, is suddenly released back to the atmosphere, which, of course, increases the speed of global warming.

  • In the last few months, the rate of deforestation here has suddenly increased.

  • It's the equivalent of America burning fossil fuels for nearly a century.

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This must be the hardest way to investigate why the trees of the Amazon so important climbing right up into them, get down on the ground.

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