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Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5℃ – and heat untouched areas 6km away

  • Written by Sally Thompson, Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
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Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down?

In tropical countries such as Indonesia, Brazil and the Congo, rapid deforestation may have accounted for up to 75% of the observed surface warming between 1950 and 2010. Our new research took a closer look at this...

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