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The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point
Plans to pave the Trans-Amazonian highway in Brazil could accelerate deforestation Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images Deforestation has pushed…
Amazon soil may store billions more tonnes of carbon than once thought
The Xingu Indigenous Territory in the Amazon may contain over 900 square kilometres of dark earth Leo F…
Half of the Amazon may be pushed to climate tipping point by 2050
Forest fires in the Amazon in October 2023 Gustavo Basso/NurPhoto via Getty Images Large portions of the Amazon…