A ‘Super’ El Niño Could Transform the Amazon. Is the World’s Biggest Rainforest Doomed?
NOAA says there is an 80% chance the event becomes very strong, raising fears of severe drought, wildfires and a possible Amazon tipping point.
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Although the reduction in deforestation observed in the country in recent years has brought some respite in the environmental field, the decrease in the coverage of Brazilian native vegetation in the last four decades exposes the national territory to the extreme events of El Niño. This is what shows data released by MapBiomas on Wednesday, obtained through satellite images, about the period between 1985 and 2025.
A ‘super’ El Niño could transform the Amazon. Is the world’s biggest rainforest doomed?
Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02449-wThe Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.
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