Amazon Losing "Flying Rivers," Ability to Curb Warming

Friday, December 18, 2009 - 14:28 in Earth & Climate

The Amazon's flying rivers"—humid air currents that deliver water to the vast rain forest—may be ebbing, and in turn drying out the region's trees and ability to curb global warming, according to experts.

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