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Amazon Deforestation Could Trigger Drop in Rainfall Across South America
Environment  (tags: deforestation, Amazon, trees, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, nature, humans, world, protection, forests, politics, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, weather, climate, climate-change )

Cal
- 258 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Deforestation could cause rainfall across the Amazon rainforest to drop precipitously, warns a new study published in the journal Nature.
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Dianne Lynn Elko (610)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 1:39 am
ty
 

John S. (232)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 2:44 am
Noted.
 

Edo R. (33)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 3:23 am
Thanks for sharing!
 

Terry V. (47)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 4:57 am
Of course it will.

We are murdering our planet, thus ourselves
 

Roger M. (0)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 8:35 am
Groan.
 

Dan and Tina Partlow (68)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 9:29 am
We just won't stop. Keep worshiping the almighty $$$$! It will be the end of us all after much suffering and sorrow while the 1% stay comfortable till the end.
 

Jason S. (55)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 9:54 am
Hope one day people change the way there think about earth before we run out of time
 

Past Member (0)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 10:20 am
thanks
 

Elizabeth M. (41)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 12:51 pm
In today's society unfortunately the almighty dollar means more than all of nature that is so precious, and once gone, gone forever.
 

Chelsie H. (18)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 1:32 pm
Thanks for sharing...
 

Robert O. (13)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 2:25 pm
Terrible. Water is life and rainfall is how we get it.
 

James E. (16)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 3:33 pm
If the GOP/TP win environmental issues will be way down the list of priorities.
 

Christeen Anderson (179)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 3:41 pm
This is bad news. What can we do to help?
 

Michael Kirkby (59)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 4:17 pm
Noted and twittered
 

John McDonald (6)
Thursday September 6, 2012, 8:32 pm
Troubling.
 

Rebecca Cowart (0)
Friday September 7, 2012, 9:04 am
noted....this makes me very sad, and all for the damn dollar.....we are killing our land and the wildlife that lives on it....why oh why can we not just stop and leave all alone!!!!!!! God we need help!!!!!
 

Dianne D. (419)
Friday September 7, 2012, 9:33 pm
The earth could be in real trouble.
 

Dave C. (138)
Saturday September 8, 2012, 10:01 am
we are killing our home.....can't give up...keep care2ing, voting, contacting political leaders, questioning and demanding good enviro behaviors from businesses, reduce, reuse, recycle, compost, plant trees, eat less meat, and educate...
 

Nancy C. (751)
Monday September 10, 2012, 9:12 am
I will grow to love the term evapotranspiration...yes, Dave. Keep planting, recycle, plant trees worldwide, clickplant, get healthier and go vegetarian, etc...
 

Melania Padilla (133)
Monday September 17, 2012, 2:17 pm
Thanks
 
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