Amazon tipping point: If the Amazon tips from rainforest to savanna it would be a disaster for the people living in the forest and for the world’s climate.
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The Amazon tipping point crisis
The Amazon tipping point at which the rainforest undergoes a process of savannisation has in places already started, a new report argues.
The Brazilian Amazon is a carbon source not a sink
A new paper in Nature Climate Change found that the Brazilian Amazon released more carbon than it stored between 2010 to 2019.
Robert Walker predicts Amazon tipping point by 2064
A recent paper in the journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development predicts that vast areas of the Amazon could reach a tipping point as soon as 2064.
The Amazon rainforest: Tipping points and false solutions
By Chris Lang In September 2007, a paper by a group of Brazilian researchers was published in Geophysical Research Letters. The title was “Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion”.