The forest that remains is receiving less rain, which in turn is making it less green which means the trees that are there are pulling in less carbon dioxide from the air around them.

Phys.org: Parts of the Amazon basin may have once looked more like open savannah

July 8, 2014

Findings have serious implications for understanding past climate change, and how the Amazon basin might react to more modern forest clearance.

Deforestation in the Amazon: past, present and future

March 21, 2023

According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon could lose almost half of what it lost in the past two decades.