Amazon Greening In Drier Weather: What's Going On?

Friday, February 7, 2014 - 08:50 in Earth & Climate

For the past eight years, the Amazon rain forest has gotten greener as the weather seemingly got hotter and drier each year from June to October.  Limited rainfall didn't prevent thriving vegetation, which really put a damper on the simplistic 'turn one climate knob and all of our issues are solved' narrative.  read more

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