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A newly published paper has outlined the looming dangers of the Amazon rainforest and what areas of the iconic location are expected to do over 30 years.

Tipping Point Large parts of the Amazon’s iconic rainforest have the possibility of reaching an irreversible “tipping point” and then collapsing into a sad shadow of it itself in less than 30 years due to deforestation and climate change impacts, scientists warn in a new paper published in the journal Nature. Because these “compounding disturbances” […]

The Amazon rainforest could approach a tipping point, which could lead to a large-scale collapse with serious implications for the global climate system.

The Amazon rainforest faces the risk of reaching a tipping point, potentially triggering a widespread collapse with significant consequences for the global climate.

<p><strong>The Amazon rainforest could approach a tipping point, which could lead to a large-scale collapse with serious implications for the global climate system. A new <em>Nature </em>study by an international research team including scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) reveals that up to 47 percent of the Amazonian forest is threatened and identifies climatic and land-use thresholds that should not be breached to keep the Amazon resilient. </strong></p>