Editing Drought (section)

=== Amazon basin ===
{{See also|Amazon Rainforest#Impact of early 21st century Amazon droughts}}
In 2005, parts of the [[Amazon basin]] experienced the worst drought in 100 years.<ref name=":4">{{cite web|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Amazon Drought Worst in 100 Years|url=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2005/2005-10-24-05.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115094341/http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2005/2005-10-24-05.asp|archive-date=2019-11-15|access-date=5 November 2017|website=ens-newswire.com}}</ref><ref name=":5">[http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0717-07.htm Drought Threatens Amazon Basin – Extreme conditions felt for second year running] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527104721/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0717-07.htm|date=May 27, 2013}}</ref> A 2006 article reported results showing that the forest in its present form could survive only three years of drought.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/law-mixed-year-begins-and-ends-wrapped-up-in-straw-1191932.html ''Amazon rainforest 'could become a desert' ''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825064419/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/law-mixed-year-begins-and-ends-wrapped-up-in-straw-1191932.html|date=2017-08-25}}, [[The Independent]], July 23, 2006. Retrieved September 28, 2006.</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/fishermen-braced-for-quota-cuts-1191880.html ''Dying Forest: One year to save the Amazon''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825060909/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fishermen-braced-for-quota-cuts-1191880.html|date=2017-08-25}}, [[The Independent]], July 23, 2006. Retrieved September 28, 2006.</ref> Scientists at the Brazilian [[National Institute of Amazonian Research]] argue in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of [[deforestation]] on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a "[[tipping point (climatology)|tipping point]]" where it would irreversibly start to die. It concludes that the [[rainforest]] is on the brink of being turned into [[savanna]] or [[desert]], with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate. According to the [[World Wide Fund for Nature|WWF]], the combination of [[Deforestation and climate change|climate change and deforestation]] increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080518192545/http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/index.cfm?uNewsID=64220 ''Climate change a threat to Amazon rainforest, warns WWF''], [[World Wide Fund for Nature]], March 9, 2996. Retrieved September 28, 2006.</ref>