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AMAZON FIRES AND
ECOSYSTEM TIPPING
POINTS
T he he Amazon saw a tropical ecosystem closer to
significant uptick in the
number of fires across Brazil, an ecological tipping point,
towards a degraded low-
Bolivia and Peru (with ~9000 carbon savannah system.
km2 burnt) in 2019 due to This is important for global
human-driven deforestation, sustainability as the Amazon
logging and exploitation. This forest is the world’s largest
in itself is a cause for concern carbon sink, but whose
as there are fears that the capture and storage of
interaction of deforestation, carbon dioxide has been
widespread use of fire for decreasing over the past
clearing and climate change decades
are pushing this normally wet
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