Deforestation is a well-documented public enemy in the Amazon, but new research suggests that the climate crisis, when coupled with the destruction of trees, could mean the end of the rainforest as we know it. The Amazon contains ten percent of the world’s biodiversity, but the synergistic impact of a changing climate and tree clearing could destroy up to 58 percent of the trees by 2050 and effectively split the forest in two. A new study, published in Nature Climate Change, developed and applied...
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