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Amazon forests failing to keep up with climate change

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A team of more than 100 scientists has assessed the impact of global warming on thousands of tree species across the Amazon to discover the winners and losers from 30 years of climate change. Their analysis found the effects of climate change are altering the rainforest’s composition of tree species but not quickly enough to...

Forest fires increasingly dominate Amazonian carbon emissions during droughts

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Carbon emissions from the Brazilian Amazon are increasingly dominated by forest fires during extreme droughts rather than by emissions from fires directly associated with the deforestation process, according to a study in Nature Communications. The authors suggest that recurrent 21st century droughts may undermine achievements in reducing emissions from deforestation in this region. Lead author...

Amazon floodplain trees emit as much methane as all Earth’s oceans combined

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An international team of environmental scientists, including Dr Emanuel Gloor from the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds, have discovered that trees growing in the Amazon floodplains surrounding the Amazon River emit as much methane into the atmosphere as all of the world’s oceans. The study, led by scientists from The...