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Climate change hurting Amazon rainforest warns Nasa - Responding to Climate Change

2013-01-21 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RTCC: Large areas of the Amazon rainforest appear to be deteriorating as a result of drought due to climate change, new research from Nasa reveals. An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California has suffered from a megadrought that began in 2005, causing widespread changes to the forest canopy that were detectable by satellite. While rainfall levels picked up post 2005, the old-growth forest in southwestern Amazonia appears to have struggled to recover before another drought hit the...

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