The world's largest and most important forest covers a huge area of half Europe. The rainforest spans nine countries, but most of it is in Brazil.
Beatrice Crona, environmental scientist at Stockholm University, visited Aktuellt to talk about the risk with an ever smaller Amazon.
- The Amazon is one of the largest and most important carbon sinks we have left. It plays a hugely important role in stabilizing the climate and counteracting global warming.
See environmental scientist Beatrice Crona explain more in the clip above.