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Bookmark or Share- Amazon rainforest - WikipediaThe Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest.
- "We are killing this ecosystem": the scientists tracking the Amazon's ...In the southeastern Amazon, the forest has become a source of CO 2. The finding gained headlines around the world and surprised many scientists, who expected the Amazon to be a much stronger...
- Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system | NatureFor 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic variability. Now, the region is increasingly exposed to unprecedented stress from warming temperatures, extreme...
- Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change - National Geographic SocietyThe Amazon rain forest absorbs one-fourth of the CO2 absorbed by all the land on Earth. The amount absorbed today, however, is 30% less than it was in the 1990s because of deforestation. A major motive for deforestation is cattle ranching.
- About the Amazon | WWFNot only does the Amazon encompass the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, it also houses at least 10% of the world’s known biodiversity, including endemic and endangered flora and fauna, and its river accounts for 15-16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans.
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