Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a ‘hypertropical’ climate — and trees won’t survive that for long

Photo: Spherical panorama the location of this photo is the amazon rainforest, flooded forest area called land inundated by floods and drought in the Amazon River. Photo credit: James Martins via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0. Article by  Sascha Pare. Live Science – December 10, 2025. Research article: Nature.

The Amazon rainforest is inching toward a “hypertropical” climate regime that has not existed on Earth for at least 10 million years, new research suggests. Scientists predict this regime will cause more frequent and extreme droughts, which could lead to mass tree dieoffs. By 2100, hot droughts could bake the Amazon for 150 days of the year, extending even into the wet season, according to a study published Wednesday (Dec. 10) in the […]

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