Daniel Nepstad

Executive Director and President, Earth Innovation Institute

Expertise: Tropical forest ecology

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Climate change can make it harder for the Amazon rainforest to grow back from deforestation, but that does not mean 40% of it will now turn into a savanna

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“Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah”

SOURCE: Fiona Harvey, The Guardian

Published: 14 Oct 2020

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