Auto World: Fires caused by climate change and deforestation could mean trouble for the trees of the Amazonian rainforest, according to a new study.
Biologists from Brazil's Amazon Environmental Research Institute and the Woods Hole Research Center in the U.S. conducted field experiments to figure out how severe drought accelerates forest dieback.
Research was published recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Traditionally, fires are caused by natural forces in the Amazon....