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Amazon floodplain trees emit as much methane as all Earth’s oceans combined

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An international team of environmental scientists, including Dr Emanuel Gloor from the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds, have discovered that trees growing in the Amazon floodplains surrounding the Amazon River emit as much methane into the atmosphere as all of the world’s oceans. The study, led by scientists from The...