Nearly half of the forests that make up the Amazon Rainforest are on track to collapse in the next 16 years, an international team of scientists announced today.Droughts, deforestation, and fires are threatening the rainforest, according to a new study, which found that between 10 and 47 percent of the rainforests could be so distressed and degraded by 2050 that they will fall into a downward spiral of ecosystem decline.The Amazon Rainforest, sometimes described as 'the lungs of the Earth' because its trees produce so much of the globe's oxygen, depends on heavy rainfall. If moisture levels continue to fall as they have been, the crucial forests could end up as grasslands.
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