ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The world's largest rainforest ecosystem, the Amazon, will collapse and largely become a dry, scrubby plain by 2064 because of climate change and deforestation, a ...

The tipping point would occur when the rainforest ecosystem could no longer regenerate itself, collapsing irreversibly instead into a dry savannah.

“A new NASA study shows that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out, increasing the demand for water, and leaving ecosystems vulnerable to fires ...

Unveiled in the journal Science Advances, the site—known as McGraths Flat—is one of only a few places in the world that preserves rainforest ecosystems dating back to the Miocene epoch, a time ...

Read the full paper here: " Characterizing soundscapes across diverse ecosystems using universal acoustic feature set," PNAS July 21, 2020 117 (29) 17049-17055; first published July 7, 2020 ...