The Amazon rainforest has been playing a critical role in our fight against global climate change. The Amazon biome created by the rainforest has been one of the largest carbon sinks in the world. Even now, predicting the accurate numbers on the carbon data related to the rainforest is  a challenge. However, recently new satellite-based technologies have made advancements in the field and provided new data sets. Amazon Conservation Association, an NGO based in Peru and Bolivia, used its project, Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) to study the data provided notably by NASA’s GEDI mission and recent data … Continue reading Amazon’s 56.8 Billion Metric Tons of Carbon Might Not Be Enough to Keep It as Earth’s Largest Carbon Sink