Amazon rainforests could transition to savannah-like states in response to climate change, new study predicts

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By <a class="author-link"…Dec 29, 2015, 2:20 am225 pts
By the end of this century, as climate continues to warm, dry seasons could become longer and more intense in the Amazon region. Droughts could become more commonplace. But the fate of the Amazon forest -- home to around 300 billion trees, and crucial to the Earth’s water and carbon cycle -- in this drier…

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