{"id":156442,"date":"2023-01-27T17:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/humans-have-degraded-more-than-a-third-of-the-amazon-rainforest-researchers-say"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:25:42","slug":"humans-have-degraded-more-than-a-third-of-the-amazon-rainforest-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/humans-have-degraded-more-than-a-third-of-the-amazon-rainforest-researchers-say","title":{"rendered":"Humans Have Degraded More Than A Third Of The Amazon Rainforest, Researchers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-have-degraded-more-than-a-third-of-the-amazon-rainforest-researchers-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than one-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by humans, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>Degradation is different from deforestation, the researchers note, as it represents long-term changes in forest conditions that damages its ecosystem and results in carbon emissions greater to those from deforestation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New estimates are larger than what scientists previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by humans, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. Degradation is different from deforestation, the researchers note, as it represents long-term changes in forest conditions that damages its ecosystem and results in carbon emissions greater to those from deforestation. New estimates are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}