Amazon is losing its resiliency
2022 CE • Amazon Rainforest
"The Amazon is losing its ability to recover from disturbances like droughts and land-use changes . . . adding to concern that the rainforest is approaching a critical threshold beyond which much of it will be replaced by grassland, with vast consequences for biodiversity and climate change . . . Losing the rainforest could result in up to 90 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide getting put back into the atmosphere, he said, equivalent to several years of global emissions. That would make limiting global warming more difficult."
Henry Fountain, "Amazon Is Less Able to Recover From Droughts and Logging, Study Finds," New York Times, March 7, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/climate/amazon-rainforest-climate-change-deforestation.html.
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