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Lasers revealed a large settlement—rivaling even Mayan societies in complexity—that had been hidden for centuries.

Lasers revealed a large settlement—rivaling even Mayan societies in complexity—that had been hidden for centuries.

Climate change was the chief driver of the devastating drought that gripped the Amazon last year, say researchers, as warming threatens one of the world's most important ecosystems for stabilising the global climate.The researchers warned that while the drought was currently a once-in-50-year event, with global warming of 2C the Amazon would suffer these conditions about every 13 years.

The world's largest rainforest protects us from climate change but deforestation has left it vulnerable.

Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year's severe drought in the Amazon that sent rivers to record lows, required deliveries of food and drinking water to hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins, researchers said Wednesday. Both climate change and El Niño contributed about equally to a reduction in rainfall.