This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bombs--And Found Grim Clues That the Forest Is Dying
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:46.9 | Okay. Climate researcher Luciana Gatti stares grimly out of an oval porthole. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm sitting next to her in a single-engine prop plane. |
| 0:56.8 | We climb into the sky above the eastern Amazon in Brazil. She motions toward the ground below us. You see, you see, the forestation here. Oh, right there, right there. Yeah. |
| 1:05.2 | Luciana works at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. She started coming here two decades ago. She says that back |
| 1:13.1 | then, the land we're looking down on, was completely blanketed in green. The crowns of millions of |
| 1:20.2 | trees intertwined. The few subsistence farms that interrupted this green ocean only seemed to prove |
| 1:27.3 | how vast the jungle was. |
| 1:29.3 | Today all we see through the plains window glass are brown and green jigsaw puzzle pieces |
| 1:35.3 | alternating between newly cleared jungle, grain crops and the remains of recent harvests. |
| 1:41.3 | They are killing the forest to transform everything in soybean. |
| 1:47.9 | I'm Daniel Grossman, reporting for science quickly. |
| 1:52.0 | I've come to the Amazon to find out what Luciana is learning about the health of the forest |
| 1:57.5 | in its role influencing the rate of climate change. |
| 2:01.8 | And the plane we're on isn't just used for taking in the view. |
| 2:05.8 | It's part of Luciana's science. |
| 2:08.5 | She hires this plane and others to collect air above the changing forest, |
| 2:13.5 | because mixed in with the air is a key to climate change, carbon dioxide. |
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