In the August 30, 2019 edition of the New York Times, Amazon Biodiversity Center Founder and President talks about how the Amazon rainforest is close to an irreversible tipping point, beyond which the ecosystem's hydrological cycle will collapse, with consequences for the precipitation and climate change impacts in South America and beyond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/world/americas/amazon-rainforest-fires-climate.html