Published 17:11 IST, March 12th 2020
Amazon Rainforest, Carribean Coral Reefs could disappear in 50 years: Research
Research carried out at Bangor University suggest that the Amazon Rainforest could be gone in 49 years and the coral reefs could be bleached in the next 15 yrs.
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A research carried out at Bangor University suggest that Amazon Rainforest could be gone in about 49 years and coral reefs could be bleached in next 15 years. researchers analysed changes of 25 marine, 13 freshwater and four land ecosystems to find out how long it would take for m to reach a critical point. Dr Simon Willcock, a joint le author on study, from Bangor University's School of Natural Sciences, said that changes represent a threat to human life.
researches have said that once a 'tipping point' is triggered, large ecosystems could collapse much faster. study reveals that humanity needs to prepare for changes far sooner than expected as rapid changes to world's largest and most iconic ecosystems would impact benefits which y provide us with, including everything from food and materials to oxygen and water. Furrmore, according to study, larger ecosystems may take longer to collapse, however, ir deterioration is much quicker than expected.
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'Big systems collapse much faster'
As per research, John Dearing, a professor of physical geography at Southampton University, who led research, said: "We intuitively knew that big systems would collapse more slowly than small ones - due to time it takes for impacts to diffuse across large distances. But what was unexpected was finding that big systems collapse much faster than you might expect - even largest on Earth only taking possibly a few deces”.
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Dr Gregory Cooper, ar le researcher, said that world needs to do more conserve biodiversity. research also said that humans need to prepare for changes in ecosystem as y are likely to collapse over relatively short 'human timescales' of years and deces. research is also ar reason to halt environmental dam that is pushing ecosystems to ir limits.
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research re, “ unravelling effects should d to concerns about effects of fires on long-term resilience of Amazon to climate change, or rapid spre of recent bush fires in Australia caused by existing fires igniting furr fires”.
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17:11 IST, March 12th 2020