‘A potential tipping point’: The Amazon rainforest’s ‘dark year’ of destruction puts it on the road to collapse
“The Amazon is approaching a tipping point,” Cesareo said, “in which it could transform into something more like a grassland savannah, causing serious consequences for the planet.” The government data was released days after an international team of scientists published research showing that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in July was almost four times the average from …
