Transform approach to Amazon or it will not survive, warns major report
by Jonathan Watts from Science | The Guardian on (#5RVE2)
Panel of 200 scientists tells Cop26 Indigenous people, business, governments and scientists must collaborate
The world's approach to the Amazon rainforest must be transformed to avoid an irreversible, catastrophic tipping point, according to the most comprehensive study of the region ever carried out.
More than 200 scientists collaborated on the new report, which finds that more than a third of the world's biggest tropical forest is degraded or deforested, rainfall is declining and dry seasons are growing longer.
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