Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns | Environment | The Guardian
The Amazon rainforest has degraded to the point where it is losing its
ability to benignly regulate weather systems, according to a stark new
warning from one of Brazil’s leading scientists.
Smoke billows
as an area of the Amazon rainforest is burned to clear land for
agriculture near Novo Progresso, Para State. Photograph: Nacho
Doce/Reuters
