Climate change will fuel fires in the Amazon rainforest

Climate change will fuel fires in the Amazon rainforest

Climate change will fuel fires in the Amazon rainforest

The interaction between deforestation and warming will double the area burned by 2050

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The interaction between deforestation and warming will double the area burned by 2050

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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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