Deforestation and warming could push Amazon to tipping point by 2040s: Study

Mongabay
May 7, 2026, 10:10 am121 ptsTrending
Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could come much sooner than previously thought. That’s the warning from a new paper, published in Nature, which determined that deforestation of 22-28% of the rainforest, combined with…

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