Bummer: EDF staff scientist argues that within his son's lifetime, trace amounts of CO2 will turn the Amazon rainforest into an arid savanna

A First-Time Father Sees Global Warming in a New Light | Environmental Defense Fund

The Brazilian Amazon, where we studied the rainforest as graduate students, may vanish after droughts trigger catastrophic dieback. All that will remain of the world’s greatest forest is arid savanna.

Jason Funk | Environmental Defense Fund

Jason is a staff scientist, specializing in land use and climate science, at Environmental Defense Fund.