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  • Severe climate changes can affect trees in the rainforest.
  • Floods can rip out trees and cause landslides.
  • Droughts can kill trees. The Amazon Rainforest had a serious drought in 2005 and many trees died. Then in 2010 it suffered an even more serious drought. The dead and rotting trees release all their carbon into the atmosphere, and, of course, don't absorb carbon ever again.
  • Rainforest animals may struggle to live if they cannot adapt to a different climate. If animals become extinct this will mean other species will overpopulate.
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