The Alarm That Cannot Be Ignored The Amazon is often called the “lungs of the world” — and that’s no exaggeration. The planet’s largest tropical rainforest regulates the climate, harbors unparalleled biodiversity, and stores billions of tons of carbon that, if released, would drastically accelerate global climate change. But this green giant faces constant pressure, […]
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Amazon Deforestation: Impacts That Are Changing the Climate
The Amazon is sending warning signals that the entire world needs to hear. In recent years, scientists have documented something that was once just theory: the richest tropical forest on the planet may be approaching a point of no return, a threshold beyond which significant parts of the Amazon would cease to sustain themselves as […]