New Delhi, May 8 -- Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9degC of warming over pre-industrial levels and deforestation increases to roughly 22%-28% of the Amazon, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published in Nature journal on Wednesday. At the United Nations climate meeting (COP30) in Brazil's Belem, 196 countries agreed to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 in accordance with Article 5 of the Paris Agreement. Without additional deforestation, such large-scale drying would likely occur only at much higher warming levels of around 3.7-4degC. "Deforestation makes the Amazon far less resil...