The Amazon is approaching an irreversible tipping point

01/08/2019 por Tatu D'Oquei

THE AMAZON basin, most of which sits within the borders of Brazil, contains 40% of the world’s tropical forests and accounts for 10-15% of the biodiversity of Earth’s continents. Since the 1970s nearly 800,000km² of Brazil’s original 4m km² (1.

Link: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/08/01/the-amazon-is-approaching-an-irreversible-tipping-point