Cerrado deforestation is already linked to a 10% reduction in water recycled into the atmosphere annually, and a 0.9° Celsius (1.6° Fahrenheit) increase in land surface temperature across the ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

This could mean the large-scale collapse of a biome that has for 65 million years has served as the Earth’s carbon sink, ... spreading water deeper and deeper throughout the Amazon. Advertisement.

The Amazon rainforest plays a vital role in sustaining life ... Not just for food, water, wood and medicines, but to help stabilise the climate—150-200 billion tons of carbon is ... But this unique ...

With fewer trees to release water into the atmosphere, the Amazon becomes more susceptible to drought. ... a region that concentrates most of the climate anomalies in the entire biome. ...

Biomes Around the World. 6/5/2025 | 8m 13s Video has Closed Captions | CC. This episode is from WHRO’s Spotlight Earth series. Watch this video to explore biomes. Aired 06/05/2025 | Rating TV-G ...

According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested biome in 2023 following the damages detected in the region known as Matopiba, which ...

Brazil is home to 12 per cent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their ...