{"id":12035,"date":"2023-10-25T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:16:00","slug":"its-clearer-than-ever-that-were-pushing-the-amazon-rainforest-to-its-dreaded-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12035","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s clearer than ever that we\u2019re pushing the Amazon rainforest to its dreaded demise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;The largest tropical forest on Earth, the Amazon stores&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.noaa.gov\/2021\/07\/14\/deforestation-warming-flip-part-of-amazon-forest-from-carbon-sink-to-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 120 billion tons<\/a>&nbsp;of carbon, which \u2014 if unleashed into the atmosphere \u2014 would supercharge climate change. It\u2019s also home to a mind-boggling number of plant and animal species, many of which have served as the basis for medicines to fight ailments like cancer and hypertension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s what makes this so alarming: The Amazon forest is dying. Decades of deforestation, wildfires, and rising temperatures are pushing the forest toward a critical threshold of destruction beyond which large parts of the rainforest will dry out and turn into a savanna, releasing massive quantities of carbon in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/23904829\/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-tipping-point\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/23904829\/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-tipping-point<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The largest tropical forest on Earth, the Amazon stores more than 120 billion tons of carbon, which \u2014 if unleashed into the atmosphere \u2014 would supercharge climate change. It\u2019s also home to a mind-boggling number of plant and animal species, many of which have served as the basis for medicines to fight ailments like cancer and hypertension.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what makes this so alarming: The Amazon forest is dying. Decades of deforestation, wildfires, and rising temperatures are pushing the forest toward a critical threshold of destruction beyond which large parts of the rainforest will dry out and turn into a savanna, releasing massive quantities of carbon in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/23904829\/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-tipping-point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[453,103,1961,102],"class_list":["post-12035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-amazon","tag-environment","tag-rainforest","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12036,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions\/12036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}