Amazon basin deforestation could disrupt distant rainforest by remote climate connection
Monday, June 26, 2017 - 08:52
in Earth & Climate
The ongoing deforestation around the fringes of the Amazon may have serious consequences for the untouched deeper parts of the rainforest. A new research study shows that it is not only the climate that is adversely affected by deforestation. In fact, the very stability of the ecosystem in the entire Amazon region is altered when deforestation takes place in the outermost regions.