Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Mongabay
Mar 5, 2018, 10:52 am232 pts
The Amazon cloud factory. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay In Brazil during the 1970s, when the first deforestation was spreading along the route of the Belém-Brasília highway, the Amazon forest seemed endless and eternal. It was mostly a place of resource extraction – rubber, Brazil nuts and more –…

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