Forest fires and warming planet could accelerate deforestation in Amazon
Belem, Brazil (UPI) Apr 15, 2013 - The increasingly deadly combination of forest fire and extreme weather spells tragedy for the trees of the Amazonian rainforest, according to a new study by biologists from Brazil's Amazon Environmental Research Institute and the Woods Hole Research Center in the U.S. Scientists conducted field experiments to observe how severe drought accelerates forest dieback, a phenomenon whereby th ... more

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