Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Sad, sad thing

 
 
 
Photograph: Joao Laet/AFP/Getty
 

Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point'

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021

... "After this point the rainforest would stop producing enough rain to sustain itself and start slowly degrading into a drier savannah, releasing billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere"...
 The Guardian, October 2019

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