The planet’s carbon sinks, the natural repositories of atmospheric CO2 that kept the world’s climate in balance, are collapsing at an unexpectedly fast pace according to recent research. Every human can help end the deforestation that has devastated the Amazon to make way for cattle farming and soy bean fields, mangrove forests in coastal areas removed to create shrimp farms, and due to excessive logging in North America. Learn how to identify deforestation-free products to help reverse the trajectory of natural ecosystem services.

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