Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds

Mongabay
Aug 20, 2021, 10:54 am164 pts
The fragility of Latin American forests has been demonstrated by a pioneering study published in the journal Science Advances, which reveals an alarming finding: half of the region’s forests would not survive after their first fire, much less withstand a second conflagration in less than five years. The…

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