Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a ...

The Amazon rainforest could disappear within five decades and be replaced by grassland as deforestation and climate change destroy its flora much faster than expected, a study has found.

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...

“The models have shown us that the AMOC need not completely collapse in order to have an effect on the rainforest. The northern areas of the Amazon region are massively impacted under mere moderate ...

termed the ‘Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse’. This represented a transition from the moist environments of the Carboniferous to the drier, more desert-like ecosystems of the Permian, causing the ...

Then, glaciations, a decrease in sea levels, and the formation of Pangaea due to the continents joining together took place. A minor extinction event of both marine and land life, known as the ...

Image of the Amazon rainforest in the Urubu river, near the municipality of Silves, Amazonas State, Brazil. Author: Andre Deak. Wikimedia Commons. “A major question is whether a large-scale collapse ...

14, 2024). It may seem absurd to consider collapse of the Amazon rainforest (65-million-years-old) which seems impossible, too far out, not warranting an article like this, but, sorry to say.

“Some of these later became extinct, perhaps during the so-called ‘Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse,’ a time shortly after the age of Mazon Creek when the coal forests began to fragment and ...

Some of these later became extinct, perhaps during the so-called ‘Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse,’ a time shortly after the age of Mazon Creek when the coal forests began to fragment and ...

the system may eventually collapse from megafires and become trapped in a persistently flammable, open-vegetation state.” The Amazon Rainforest spans 6.7 million square kilometers, accounting ...

The Amazon rainforest is nearing a threshold which, once crossed, would see one of the world’s largest and richest ecosystems morph into arid savannah within half-a-century, scientists said.