TUM Global | 1. The Amazon: A carbon sink on the brink?

In the debut episode of our new mini-series "TUM Global" we speak
to Professor David Lapola, a research scientist at the Center for
Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture of
the University of Campinas – UNICAMP in Brazil. A key partner of
TUM, we discuss the interdisciplinary and international research
project AmazonFACE which Professor Lapola is coordinating to
discover what the Amazon forest might look like in fifty or even
one hundred years if the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere
continues to rise.

Could we hit a "tipping point" in the Amazon's ability to act as
a carbon sink? ... and how can international cooperation help us
to understand and be better prepared for the effects?



Please see full program notes:
www.lll.tum.de/podcast


Music:
"Beauty Inside" by Soundroll
"Celebration" by Zac Nelson


Artwork:
Katharina Quitter