A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink

www.nytimes.com

A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink

www.nytimes.com

silence7@slrpnk.netM to

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

The rainforest holds a fifth of the world’s fresh water, but deforestation, dwindling rain and unrelenting heat are sucking it dry.

For context, there’s a tipping point, which we are close to, beyond which deforestation of the Amazon changes the local climate to dry, killing the rest of the forest

Chat

DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml
link
fedilink
arrow-up
2·
edit-2
2 months ago
deleted by creator

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net

climate@slrpnk.net

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

593 users / day
2.09K users / week
4.5K users / month
11.2K users / 6 months
50 local subscribers
5.19K subscribers
6.43K Posts
30.1K Comments
Modlog

mods:
silence7@slrpnk.net