The slowdown in the AMOC ocean current can preserve the Amazon forest

The potentially catastrophic slowdown in a critical ocean current due to climate change can have an advantage: it could help support the Amazon forest in the face of increasing temperatures.

THE Collapse of the southern Atlantic overturning circulation (Amoc) and the Transformation of the Amazonian forest into savannah are two of the most serious tilting points that should occur if global warming continues – defined as sudden changes in earth systems which can cause global and irreversible impacts. Some studies suggest that the …