Amazon Rainforest Nearing Tipping Point

According to a recent study, more than 75% of the Amazon rainforest has been heading towards a tipping point since the early 2000s.

• The researchers used 30 years of satellite data to understand the resilience of the rainforest and how it has changed over the years.

Key Findings: Decreasing Resilience: Continuously decreasing rainforest resilience since the early 2000s has been observed in the study.

• The Amazon rainforest may be losing its ability to bounce back from extreme events such as drought or fire, threatening to become a dry savanna-like ecosystem.
• Implications: This transition will have devastating effects on Amazon’s rich biodiversity, carbon-storing potential and global climate change