The deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, mainly for agricultural expansion and logging, has not only led to the loss of biodiversity but also contributed to global warming. In this sentence, "biodiversity" refers to _. A. the variety of different species B. the amount of water resources C...
AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 squa...
通读全文,并根据第一段“Much of the Amazon’s biodiversity (生物多样性) is under fire-literally. In the last two decades, deforestation (滥伐) and forest fire ate into the ranges of thousands of plant and animal species in the Amazon rainforest.(亚马逊的大部分生物多样性正受到大火的严重破坏...
BATON ROUGE – Few places on Earth are as rich in biodiversity and removed from human influence as the world's largest rainforest—the Amazon. Scientists at LSU have been conducting research within the pristine rainforest for decades. However, they began to notice that some of the animals, sp...
It’s not a pack of armed guerrillas (游击队员) marching through the trees or a squad of fighter pilots dropping bombs that are wiping out the world’s largest rainforest. It’s a perfect storm of climate change and industrial activity that’s effectively drying out the place, with two ...
Assessing Ecosystem Integrity in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest to Indicate Biodiversity Loss and Highlight Areas for Adaptation PoliciesEcosystem integrity (EI) may be defined as an equilibrium state of a given natural system able to self-regulate throughout many functional processes. The concept of...
This not only leads to the loss of biodiversity but also contributes to climate change by 6 (reduce) the forest’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Despite these challenges, there is still hope for the Amazon rainforest. Conservation efforts, including sustainable logging practices and the ...
The resilience of the Amazon rainforest to climate and land-use change is crucial for biodiversity, regional climate and the global carbon cycle. Deforestation and climate change, via increasing dry-season length and drought frequency, may already have pushed the Amazon close to a critical threshold...
Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America” even as the incoming Trump administration is poised to scale back eff...
Rainforests play an invaluable role in sustaining life, but every year large portions of them are cut down for logging, mining, and cattle ranches.