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Study Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest

2013-01-18 03:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NASA: An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences of droughts every few years and associated damage to the forests in southern and western Amazonia in the past decade, suggest these rainforests may be showing the first signs of potential large-scale degradation due to climate change. An international research team led by Sassan Saatchi...

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