According to the recent studies, a natural disaster in 2010 had completely shut down the Amazon Basin's carbon sink by killing trees and slowing their growth. This results in decrease in carbon absorption by Amazon forests. Name the disaster.

Forest fire

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Flood

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Drought

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None of these

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Solution

The correct option is C Drought
Between July and September 2010, severe drought gripped the Amazon Basin.
The Negro River, a tributary of the Amazon, reached its lowest level in 109 years of record-keeping.

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