Fires Have Burned 3 Percent of Amazon Rainforest in 12 Years, NASA Says

Randall Gross

When you burn trees and plants you contribute to C02 build up in our atmosphere in two ways: you reduce the filtering of CO2 by the burnt trees, and you put the CO2 they have filtered directly back into the air. More: Fires Have Burned 3 Percent of Amazon Rainforest …