Does size matter? Guiding deforestation to mitigate Amazonian tipping cascades

Does size matter? Guiding deforestation to mitigate Amazonian tipping cascades The Amazon, a critical global climate tipping element, faces destruction due to land transformation. Research by University of Hamburg and iES Landau investigates whether the size and pattern of deforestation matters, suggesting that guiding clearing can mitigate severe regional climate impacts. Rising global energy and food demands are driving widespread land transformations, with particularly critical impacts in the Amazon rainforest. As a vital tipping element of the global climate system, the fate of the Amazon has far-reaching consequences. Ongoing – and often unregulated – agrarian colonization leads to forest destruction, and the sheer spatial scale of this deforestation means the impacts are no longer limited to the loss of biotic resources.