{
  "id": 19531134,
  "title": "How would the Amazon react if it dried up? A 25-year-old field study has the answer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/how-would-the-amazon-react-if-it-dried-up-a-25-year-old-field-study",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-11T16:56:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-would-the-amazon-react-if-it-dried-up-a-25-year-old-field-study-has-the-answer/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A question hangs in the air while the soil of the planet’s largest tropical rainforest grows increasingly dry: What is the Amazon’s future facing extreme droughts in a warming world? To try to predict the fate of the biome, an ambitious experiment subjected an area of Amazon vegetation in Pará in northern Brazil to severe […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}