The Amazon is often called the “lungs of the planet” — and this metaphor, while popular, underestimates what the forest truly represents. More than producing oxygen, it regulates climate on a continental scale, harbors unparalleled biodiversity, and stores decades of accumulated carbon. When an Amazonian tree is felled, the impact doesn’t stay confined to that […]
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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 […]