The eastern Amazon Basin may become drier as a result of less regional recirculation of water in a largely deforested landscape and because of increased frequency and intensity of El Niño events induced by global warming. Drier conditions may affect several plant...

  The total area and annual rate of native vegetation clearing is greatest in the Cerrado region followed by the Brazilian states of Pará, Mato Grosso, Maranhào and Rondônia. Amazonian forest clearing proceeds most quickly where abundant natural resources...