Double Droughts in Amazon Rainforest

Double droughts caused by changing climate damage one third of Amazon Rainforest: NASA

In one of the first conclusive evidence of the effect of global warming on forests, a new NASA-led study shows how an area of the Amazon rainforest more than the size of France, or the Indian states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh put together, continues to suffer from the effects of two successive mega droughts, one in 2005 and again in 2010. These results, together with observed recurrences of droughts every few years and associated damage to the forests in southern and western Amazonia in the past decade, suggest these rainforests may be showing the first signs of potential large-scale degradation due to climate change.

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