Friday, January 18, 2013

Amazon Rainforest Under Threat From Climate Change

RedOrbit: A megadrought that started in 2005 is still affecting a portion of the Amazon Rainforest twice the size of California, a new study led by NASA`s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) finds. The results of this study, combined with the observed recurrences of droughts every few years and associated damage to forests in both the southern and western Amazon over the past decade, reveal that the rainforest might be showing the initial signs of potential large-scale degradation due to climate change. An...

URL: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112766449/climate-change-threat-amazon-rainforest-011813/
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