A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, more than three-quarters of the Amazon has lost resilience since the early 2000s.
Resilience is defined as how much disturbance an ecosystem can withstand without changing its processes and structures.
Areas with less rainfall and regions that are closer to human activity are losing resilience even faster than other parts of the rainforest. Because the rainforest is losing trees and taking longer to regenerate, it will become more difficult, and maybe impossible, for the world to limit its temperature rise to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.Experts say that food sources for millions of people could shrink.
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