article_snippet: Dr Christopher Doughty said: 'Tropical rainforests have been popularly thought of as the 'lungs' of the planet.
article_snippet: The latest findings published in Nature confirm fears that the days of the legendary rainforest curbing the impact of rising emissions could be coming to an end.
article_snippet: The latest findings published in Nature confirm fears that the days of the legendary rainforest curbing the impact of rising emissions could be coming to an end.
article_snippet: Some computer models of climate change project more droughts across the region as the planet warms - and a diminishing capacity to absorb CO2.
article_snippet: Professor Yadvinder Malhi added: 'These plots are our canaries in the climate change coal mine.
article_snippet: Only through painstaking monitoring, like this, can we hope to understand and realistically model and predict the two-way interactions between climate change and the biosphere.'