{"id":846408,"date":"2023-09-05T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=846408"},"modified":"2023-09-05T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:52:14","slug":"tropical-forest-1060462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/climate-change\/tropical-forest-1060462","title":{"rendered":"tropical-forest-1060462"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*EMBARGOED UNTIL 16.00 BST, MON SEPT 4 (11.00 ET)* Tropical forests lose their ability to absorb carbon when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry due to El Ni&#241;o, reveals new research. Tropical forests have acted for decades as a &#8220;carbon sink&#8221; &#8211; taking more carbon out of the atmosphere than they release into it &#8211; a process that scientists say has moderated the impact of climate change. See SWNS story SWSCnino.But a new study has shown that in 2015-2016, when an El Ni&#241;o climate event resulted in drought and the hottest temperatures ever recorded, South American forests were unable to function as a carbon sink. El Ni&#241;o occurs when sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean increase sharply, triggering a major shift in the world&#194;&#8217;s climate system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*EMBARGOED UNTIL 16.00 BST, MON SEPT 4 (11.00 ET)* Tropical forests lose their ability to absorb carbon when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry due to El Ni&#241;o, reveals new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}