Special Report: Is the Amazon near a tipping point? Three real-world studies are ominous

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Special Report: Is the Amazon near a tipping point? Three real-world studies are ominous

By Stephen Eisenhammer OURO PRETO DO OESTE, Brazil - Gertrudes Freire and her family came to the great forest in search of land and rain. They found both in abundance on that day half a century ago, but the green wilds of the southwestern Amazon would prove tough to tame. When they reached the settlement of Ouro Preto do Oeste in 1971, it was little more than a lonely rubber-tapper