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For millions of years, the Amazon Rainforest has been considered resilient. Yet, pressures such as deforestation, climate change, and water scarcity now strain it to its limits.

Scientists demanded urgent action to save the Amazon rainforest, which was predicted to reach its tipping point by 2050. Read more here.

A new study weighed a range of threats and variables in an effort to map out where the rainforest is most vulnerable.

The Amazon Rainforest is on track to collapse by 2050, according to a new study. Between 10 and 47 percent of the forests making up the Amazon could be irreparably degraded in 16 years.

Nearly half of the smaller forests that make up the Amazon Rainforest are on track to collapse in the next 16 years, an international team of scientists announced today. Droughts, deforestation, and fires are threatening the rainforest, according to a new study, which found that between 10 and 47 percent of the rainforest could be so distressed and degraded by 2050 that they will fall into a downward spiral of ecosystem decline. The Amazon Rainforest, sometimes described as 'the lungs of the

The Amazon rainforest is on course to reach a crucial tipping point as soon as 2050, with devastating conse...

"People were forced to make huge journeys ... to access food, medicine, and other essential goods."

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A new amendment to Peru’s forest and wildlife law is being criticized by opponents as unconstitutional and a step backward in forest protection after it came into effect Jan. 10 following approval by Congress. The revised law (Law 29763) legalizes agricultural activities without the need for certain environmental evaluations or technical studies on private properties […]

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