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First study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggests the damaged forest is now worsening climate change
The first broad look at all of the gases that affect how the Amazon works not just CO2 reveals a system on the brink.
ByCraig Welch
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The Amazon rainforest is most likely now a net contributor to warming of the planet, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis from more than 30 scientists.
For years, researchers have expressed concern that rising temperatures, drought, and deforestation are reducing the capacity of the world’s largest rainforest to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and help offset emissions from fossil-fuel burning. Recent studies have even suggested that some portions of the tropical landscape already may release more carbon than they store.
And who is Jude and where is Penny Lane?
While these queries sound like the perfect starting off points for spirited conversations by Beatlemaniacs, they were actually elements of serious inquiry at Liverpool Hope University.
In 2009, the UK institution made global headlines by offering what was believed to be the first Master s degree on The Beatles.
The academic programme, titled
The Beatles, Popular Music
and Society, was offered on a full-time and part-time basis by the university s Department of Music and included four 12-week modules and a final dissertation.
A decade ago today, on January 25, 2011, Canadian student and singer Mary Lu Zahalan-Kennedy took the long and winding road to the lectern to receive her diploma as the first graduate of the course.