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. (The Savanna ecosystem is a tropical grassland with warm temperatures year-round and ....