Global Warming Threatens Amazon's Medicinal and Ritual Plant Species

A new study finds that rising temperatures and more severe droughts could destroy many of the Amazon's useful plant species relied upon by Indigenous communities for medicine, rituals and daily life. Scientists warn that climate change poses a direct threat to the biodiversity that sustains these societies. The findings add urgency to calls for Amazon conservation and climate action.

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