The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," is teetering on the edge of a critical tipping point. Prolonged droughts and rampant deforestation are pushing this vast ...

They’ve all brought the Amazon forest closest to the tipping point. Drollette: When people are talking about ... as late as the 1990s, the Amazon rainforest was still removing close to 1 billion ...

Since world leaders pledged to halt global deforestation at the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 in Glasgow an area of ...

The potentially catastrophic slowdown of a critical ocean current due to climate change may have one upside: it could help prop up the Amazon rainforest in the face of rising temperatures.

As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon plays a crucial role in keeping ... to devolve into a savannah-like landscape. This tipping point would not only lead to the end of the Amazon as ...

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the ... That could help researchers assess if the rainforest is nearing a so-called "tipping point," which would pitch the crucial ecosystem towards ...

Shockingly, around 17% of the Amazon has already been destroyed. But this doesn’t tell the whole story. While it may look like there is a lot of forest still standing, we are moving perilously close ...

The Amazon rainforest, and the Amazon River and its ... It may not sound a lot, but scientists warn of what they call the tipping point. That is when the forest can't sustain its tropical climate ...

They're called tipping points. Once they start ... If it was just climate change that threatened the Amazon rainforest it would probably be big enough and resilient enough to survive global ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.