The resilience of the Amazon rainforest to climate and land-use change is crucial for biodiversity, regional climate and the global carbon cycle. Deforestation and climate change, via increasing dry-season length and drought frequency, may already have pushed the Amazon close to a critical ...
As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon rainforest is often called “the lungs of the earth”. Itensuresthat less carbon dioxide is released, mitigating the effects of climate change.Any forest destroyed is a threat to biodiversity and the people who use that biodiversity," Thomas...
Fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforest are a hot topicas scientists and environmental groups are worried that they willworsen climate change crisis and endanger biodiversity(生物多样性).As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon rainforestis often called"the lungs of the world". It...
Record wildfires are running amok in the Amazon rainforest, which will likely aggravate climate change crisis and threaten biodiversity. "Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rainforest -- the lungs which produce 20 percent of our planet's oxygen -- is on fire," French President Emmanue...
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Photo Credit: Getty Images WILDFIRES AND EMERGING DISEASES Data that climate scientists monitor to predict the severity of the upcoming wildfire season confirm the worst: conditions will be optimal for the...
Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 20610–20615 (2009). CAS Google Scholar Nepstad, D. C., Stickler, C. M., Soares-Filho, B. & Merry, F. Interactions among Amazon land use, forests ...
Record fires sweeping across the Amazon this month have been catching the world's attention, because scientists and environmental groups are worried that they will make the climate worse and threaten biodiversity. As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is often called "the lungs of ...
语法填空 Large ecosystems (生态系统), such as the Amazon rainforest, ___ (disappear) quickly, once an important tipping point is reached, according to calculations based ___ real-world data. ___ (write) in Nature Communications, researchers from Bangor University, argue that many ecosystems ...
The RIEGL VZ-400i was used to help aid Academy Research Fellow Eduardo Maeda with his continuing conservation efforts for the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon basin includes 550 Mha covered with rainforests, and 60% of this area is in Brazil. The conversion of rainforest for soybean production raises concerns about how Brazil can reconcile production and environmental goals. Here we investigated