A new study found that deforestation reduces rainfall in tropical rainforests — which has grave consequences for agriculture, drought and climate resilience.
Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty ImagesView of a deforested and burned area of the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil on Sept. 2, 2022.A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world's three largest remaining tropical rainforests.last month, found that clearing wide swaths of trees — what's known as deforestation — reduces rainfall in tropical rainforests which actually generate their own rain. When it rains, trees soak up and use that water.
The study looked at satellite data on rainfall and forest loss in the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, which covers nine countries; the Congo Basin, the second largest rainforest spanning six countries; and Southeast Asia, home to Indonesia's thriving Leuser Ecosystem. "When we're removing trees, we're making the environment drier and that lack of moisture that's the big cloud above those trees just disappears," said Callum Smith, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds in England and co-author of the study.
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