{"id":15740,"date":"2021-11-15T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=15740"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:53:06","slug":"amazon-basin-approaches-potential-disastrous-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/amazon-basin-approaches-potential-disastrous-tipping-point\/15740\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon basin approaches potential disastrous tipping point"},"content":{"rendered":"
A first-of-its-kind scientific report detailing the natural disaster unfolding in the Amazon basin was presented at the COP26 conference in Glasgow<\/a>. The Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) released an Amazon Assessment Report that\u202fwas developed by over 200 scientists. It is the most in-depth and comprehensive scientific assessment yet made on the state of the Amazon Basin. The report warns that the Amazon is quickly approaching a potential catastrophic tipping point due to deforestation<\/a>, degradation, wildfires, and climate change. Crossing such a tipping point could result in a permanent\u202floss of rainforest and a disastrous shift to dry and degraded ecosystems.<\/p>\n Associate professor\u202fat\u202fthe UvA\u2019s Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Carina Hoorn, is the leading author of the report\u2019s first chapter-Geology and geodiversity of the Amazon: Three billion years of history. <\/em>She is also co-author of its second chapter, Evolution of Amazonian biodiversity<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Amazon is one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the planet,\u201d explained Hoorn. \u201cIf we allow the forest to be destroyed now, it will be gone forever.\u201d<\/p>\nThe biodiversity of the Amazon basin<\/h3>\n