The Amazon, the largest rainforest and with greater biodiversity in the world, suffering from drought and deforestation. Specialists believe that this lung of the planet is approaching a point of no return that its trees are weak and the soil cannot hold moisture. Forests lose their capacity to resist events such as forest fires. Researchers believe that 47% of the planet's lungs will disappear in 2050.
The Amazon River last year reduced its flow at the lowest level in the last 120 years. Global warming caused by human activity is accelerating the destruction of the Amazon and most of its parts store large amounts of greenhouse gases. they trap the heat WHAT release gases into the atmosphere placing the risk loss of biodiversity.
According to scientific predictions, half of its forests will disappear by 2050, if climate change is not addressed.
The warning from scientists about the Amazon
In 2023 droughts reached record numbers, an event so rare that it only happens once every 100 years. This shortage, along with greenhouse gas emissions, is bringing the Amazon closer to a point that experts call no return.
“It could happen by the end of the century or the next, but it could happen sooner than we think.” the extreme situation associated with climate change and many factors all lead “to the loss of biodiversity,” according to Bernardo Flores, a researcher at the Federal University of Santa Catalina (Brazil) in a joint study with the University of Birmingham and of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC).
The data gives us a wake-up call for the ecosystem and a less certain future. To the disappearance of this magnitude that makes millions of inhabitants of the planet breathe time.
Brazil and Colombia have reduced the rate of deforestation in the Amazon in recent months, but the forest continues to lose its tree cover, losing about a fifth of its original size. Despite these facts that are before our eyes, there are politicians and world leaders who continue climate change denial
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