Compare and contrast: Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024

Compare and contrast: Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024

Associated Press


“The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy director at Amazon Watch, an organization that works to protect the rainforest. “Humanity’s window of opportunity to reverse this trend is shrinking, but still open.”.   Click here to read the story.   Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.