A disaster to take everyone's breath away

Amazon: Going, going….

“Studies by the blue-chip Woods Hole Research Centre, carried out in Amazonia, have concluded that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive years of drought without breaking down.

Scientists say that this would spread drought into the northern hemisphere and could massively accelerate global warming with incalculable consequences.”

The massive collision of many negative threads of our modern life summed up in a single black swan. [via garret]