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The Amazon has lost between 15% and 17% of its trees, and at current deforestation rates, the rainforest could cross Nobre’s threshold in 15 to 30 years. “We are almost seeing the tipping ...
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Viewed from space, the Amazon rainforest doesn’t look like an ecosystem on the brink. Clouds still coalesce from the breath of some 390 billion trees. Rivers snake their way through what appears ...
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The Amazon is also taking longer to recover from perturbations like weather events, ... But in the rainforest’s southeast, they’re getting glimpses of what that point might look like.
The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres in 2020, an area roughly the size of Israel, according to a recent report on the region. Experts warn that unchecked deforestation in the ...
Large swathes of Amazon rainforest that appear healthy may be on the brink of mass dieback—when a plant starts to die beginning at the tips of its roots or leaves—due to deforestation and ...
Within just five years, the Amazon Rainforest could lose half the total forest cover that it lost in the first 20 years of this century, a recent study has shown, as deforestation rates continue ...
Topline. South America's dense Amazon rainforest has long served as one of the planet's primary carbon-absorbing regions, but a new study has found human interference is causing a large part of ...