Scientists are noticing something disturbing in the Amazon rainforest: deforestation is leading to the failure of the forest ecosystem. Many scientists believe we are reaching a tipping point, and at current deforestation rates in the Amazon, within a few decades the Amazon biome may cease to be a rainforest and become savanna-like with semiarid vegetation.
Image (below) is of an area representing 1,180 km² in Rondonia, Brazil. eveal decade