- Amazon Rainforest Is About to Reach a Tipping Point🔍
- Understanding the causes and the need for action to save the Amazon🔍
- Protecting the Amazon Rainforest and River Basin🔍
- Amazon Rainforest Faces 'Unprecedented Stresses' As Tipping ...🔍
- Human security impacts of crossing the Amazon rainforest tipping ...🔍
- Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing?🔍
- Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest🔍
- One Third of the Amazon Has Been Degraded by Human Activities🔍
The Amazon Rainforest is approaching a
The Amazon rainforest is "teetering on the edge" of an irreversible threshold that would turn it into a savanna, a group of top scientists ...
In turn, this deforestation has increased the number of fires that feed back into the climate crisis. When they occur near riverbanks, ...
In the past 50 years, the Amazon has lost nearly 20% of the forest in Brazil. Too often, this destruction leads to low-yielding cropfields and ...
”Our study shows that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point, but also that it has likely not yet crossed it,” says Niklas Boers of PIK ...
Amazon Rainforest Faces 'Unprecedented Stresses' As Tipping Points Near · Animal agriculture causes Amazon deforestation. The Amazon rainforest ...
Human security impacts of crossing the Amazon rainforest tipping ...
In the first blog post of our tipping points series, we take a look at the Amazon rainforest. It is considered a climate tipping point ...
The area shown accounts for just 2.2% of the Amazon's 6 million total square km. Since coming to power in January, Bolsonaro has been ruthless in gutting ...
Satellite data from 2018 revealed a decade-high rate of deforestation in the Amazon, with approximately 7,900 km2 (3,100 sq mi) destroyed between August 2017 ...
A pair of studies raise concerns that the Amazon rain forest may be approaching a point of no return.
The world's longest river is at its lowest levels after a long drought. That's left the Amazon Rainforest, the vital waterway and ...
Yet nearly 20% of the Amazon has been lost over the last 50 years, which scientists warn is dangerously close to the forest's “breaking point” ...
Studies reveal that burnt floodplain forests of the Amazon are recovering or being replaced by white-sand savanna ecosystems. The soil and tree ...
Drought, Floods, Climate Change, and Forest Loss in the Amazon ...
The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and it plays an important role in global and regional climate, including the exchange of water ...
The Amazon's waters and forests are a crucial resource for South America's economic development. As much as 70% of the South American continent's GDP is ...
Deforestation across the Amazon is 17%, and it is approaching 20% in Brazil. The tipping point will be reached at 20-25% deforestation, not 40% as previously ...
The scientists raise concerns that the region is approaching a tipping point. “Beyond a certain threshold, deforestation and regional ...
”Our study shows that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point, but also that it has likely not yet crossed it,” says Niklas Boers, PIK Potsdam ...
South America's Amazon Rainforest is at risk of reaching a tipping point by mid-century, owing to “unprecedented stress” from a combination of ...
A new study led by Dr Bernardo Flores of the Federal University of Santa Catarina and including a team of collaborators from Brazil, Europe and ...
The Amazon is in crisis as forests are threatened by deforestation, fires, and degradation; surface water has been lost; and rivers are ...