More deforestation leads to a drier dry season, Amazon study finds
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In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon Rainforest releases moisture into the atmosphere, it fuels the rains that feed rivers, crops, wildlife and communities. But as deforestation disrupts the water exchange between forest […]