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Published online 2 October 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001005-4
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Shrinking rain forests could wreak weather changes even in western Europe, reports Philip Ball.
The current rate of deforestation in Amazonia could significantly alter climate in the western Northern Hemisphere by 2050. Rainfall might increase not only in the southeastern USA but even as far away as western Europe, a new study claims in Geophysical Research Letters1.
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