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'At some point we're going to have to react': How El Niño, climate change, and crime are pushing the Amazon rainforest over the brink


Live Science spoke with Amazon researcher Bernardo Flores about how El Niño could help drive Earth's largest tropical rainforest past a globe-altering tipping point.

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