Record fires sweeping across the Amazon are bringing renewed scrutiny to Brazil's deforestation policy and have environmental researchers and conservationists worried that they will only aggravate the climate change crisis.
I’m deeply concerned by the fires in the Amazon rainforest. In the midst of the global climate crisis, we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity.But there's more at stake than people might realize, Chazdon said.
"Forests can regrow following fires, but not if fires are repeated every few years and not if the land is converted to agriculture," Chazdon said. According to an analysis of NASA data, in the last three months Brazil has had twice as many observed fires as in the same period in 2018. Trees in the Amazon help to pump water from the soil into the atmosphere, bringing much-needed rainfall to other areas.
"If we kill enough forest, we may be tipping the Amazon into a new, much drier state, and it may turn into a savanna," Brienen said in an email."This would be a great loss to our planet and almost means game over for our battle against climate change."
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