Environmental Studies and Forestry

How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest

M. A. Franco, L. V. Rizzo, et al.

Quantifying how deforestation and global climate change reshape the Amazon, this study analyzes long-term atmospheric and land-cover data (1985–2020) across 29 Brazilian Legal Amazon areas, finding global emissions drive >99% of CH4 and CO2 rises while deforestation has sharply raised dry-season temperatures and reduced precipitation (about 74% of a −21 mm dry-season decline and 16.5% of a 2°C max temperature rise). Research conducted by the authors listed in the <Authors> tag.