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Climate change ‘hindering Amazon reforestation bids’
by Felicity Collier

CLIMATE change is hindering the recovery of areas of the Amazon hit by deforestation, British and Chinese scientists said yesterday.

New trees are less able to counteract the effects of global warming, as a drier climate is limiting the amount of carbon they can lock away from the atmosphere and stopping them growing to the sizes of their culled forebears.

Scientists found that replanted forests are only be able to recapture two-thirds of the carbon they have lost to the atmosphere through deforestation and climate change in the past 20 years.

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