Climate change will fuel fires in the Amazon rainforest

In 30 years, the burned area of the Amazon rainforest will have doubled. A study based on the evolution of fires so far this century shows that the result of the interaction of deforestation and climate change will be a greater number of even more devastating fires. As a consequence, a good part of the amazon region It will become a net emitter of greenhouse gases that, in turn, would feed back into the process. There are experts who are beginning to talk about a point of no return and the savannization of the Amazon.

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