Global warming accelerates destruction of the Amazon. Deforestation and climate change could damage or destroy as much as 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest by 2030, according to a new report from environmental group WWF.
Both the Amazon's forest and freshwater systems are at risk. Since the year 2000, rainfall has declined across 69% of the Amazon forest. WWF estimates that 27% of the Amazon biome will be without trees by 2030 if the current rate of deforestation continues.
Based on these trends, Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 31 percent of the Amazon rainforest will be deforested and 24 percent will be damaged by drought or logging by the year 2030.
If the current rate of deforestation continues, the world's rain forests will vanish within 100 years- causing unknown effects on global climate and eliminating the majority of plant and animal species on the planet. Deforestation occurs in many ways.
By combining spatial information on various disturbances, we estimate that by 2050, 10% to 47% of Amazonian forests will be exposed to compounding disturbances that may trigger unexpected ecosystem transitions and potentially exacerbate regional climate change.
The Amazon region itself—the seven million square kilometer basin stretching over nine Brazilian states and eight other sovereign countries—would become virtually uninhabitable, according to the model. Rainfall would be 25 percent lower and temperatures up to 4.5°C hotter.
#1 Amazon. The undisputed number 1 is probably the most famous forest on earth, the South American Amazon. The forest of all forests, with its fabulous 5,500,000 km2 , not only has the largest area, but is also home to one in ten species existing on earth.
In terms of modern academic and scientific exploration, only a small percent of the forest has been conclusively mapped and charted simply because it is so large and many areas are very remote.
At that rate, only 2.5 trillion trees will exist on earth by 2050.
While deforestation rates have plunged, up to 80 million hectares (198 million acres) of the Brazilian Amazon have already been destroyed, most of it on private and undesignated public lands. Reforestation pledges have promised to replant more than 12 million hectares (30 million acres) in the coming decade.
There are no lions in the Amazon rainforest.
Lions are a large cat species that live in the savanna in Africa. In the Amazon rainforest, the largest cat species is the jaguar. The jaguar once had a range that reached beyond the Amazon into Latin America and even the southern United States.
The Amazon rainforest is on the brink of a tipping point that could cause it to dry out as soon as 2050, releasing vast amounts of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. But there's good news: after years of record-breaking deforestation, the world's largest tropical rainforest is finally enjoying some respite.
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Home to much of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's tropical primary (old-growth) forest loss greatly exceeds that of other countries.
The Americans and Canadians call it the Great Northern Forest or boreal forest (from borealis, Latin for northern), but the Russian name taiga is perhaps better known. It is the world's largest vegetation zone, bigger even than the Amazon rainforest. Thirty per cent of all trees on earth are in the boreal zone.
Tongass National Forest, Alaska
The largest National Forest in the nation, the Tongass ,a humongous land area, surrounds the Inside Passage. As you explore Southeast Alaska, you can see remnants of the vast glaciers that formed much of the North American landscape.
Destroying the Amazon would displace or impoverish millions of individuals — many families would likely migrate to cities for work and a place to live. Additionally, the indigenous communities living in the Amazon would lose their culture if the rainforest disappeared.
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Not only does the destruction of rainforests add to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it creates a “feedback loop” – where increased deforestation causes a rise in temperatures and declining rainfall, which in turn can bring about a drying of tropical forests and increase the risk of forest fires.
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Up to 47% of Amazon Rainforest At Risk of Collapse by Mid-Century Due to 'Unprecedented Stress' From Global Warming and Deforestation. Climate change-driven extreme weather conditions, wildfires, and deforestation are among the stressors threatening the survival of the world's largest rainforest.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires since 2005.