Amazon Rainforest Nearing Tipping Point

According to a recent study, more than 75% of the Amazon rainforest has been heading towards a tipping point since the early 2000s.

  • The researchers used 30 years of satellite data to understand the resilience of the rainforest and how it has changed over the years.

Key Findings

  • Decreasing Resilience: Continuously decreasing rainforest resilience since the early 2000s has been observed in the study.
  • The Amazon rainforest may be losing its ability to bounce back from extreme events such as drought or fire, threatening to become a dry savanna-like ecosystem. (The Savanna ecosystem is a tropical grassland with warm temperatures year-round and ....
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