The Amazon is estimated to contain the carbon equivalent of a decade's work of human emissions, up to 30% of all known biodiversity, 50% of all tropical forest and it produces 9% of the world's oxygen. Loss of the Amazon rainforest is removing one of the world’s largest carbon sinks...
From an economic perspective, the impact of deforestation in the Amazon is often framed as a trade-off between short-term gains and long-term sustainability. The Amazon rainforest is a valuable resource for timber, minerals, and agricultural land, and the economic incentives for its exploitation ...
mall fires in the Amazon rainforest are having a huge impact. A new satellite imaging technique has allowed scientists to see Amazonian fires1 (burn) beneath the jungle canopy (树冠), called“understory fires (下层植被火灾 )". They were 2(previous) difficult to detect. These fires destroy se...
The Amazon rainforest: a natural treasure 亚马孙雨林:大自然的宝藏 Welcome to the jungle, a huge sea of green alive with the sounds of animals. Thisis the Amazon rainforest. As the largest rainforest in the world, it ...
Along with climate change, extensive deforestation of the Amazon rainforest will increase the number of people in northern Brazil who are at risk of extreme heat — with potentially fatal results and disastrous economic impacts, according to a pioneering study released recently by Brazilian scientists...
How do humans impact temperate forests? Why is Amazon Basin ecologically so important? Why is the Amazon basin ecologically important? How are epiphytes adapted to the rainforest? How do forests provide ecosystem services? What are the causes of tropical forest deforestation?
mall fires in the Amazon rainforest are having ahuge impact A new satellite imaging techniquehas allowed scientists to see Amazonian fires1(burn) beneath the jungle canopy(树冠), calledunderstory fires(下层植被火灾)". They were 2(previous) difficult to detect. These fires destroy severaltimes ...
根据第一段“What might be the global impact of extreme losses of the Amazon rainforest — the world’s largest rainforest? A new study has found that rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could influence the temperature and rainfall over as far away as the Tibetan plateau and ...
Clean energy and poor people: ecological im- pacts of hydroelectric dam on fish and fishermen in the Amazon rainforest. V Inter- national Conference on Energy, Environmental, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development and II International Conference on Landscape Architecture. WSEAS, Greece, pp. 139-147...
Though the Amazon Rainforest - being the largest remaining rainforest, covering six percent of the earth, and crossing nine countries - remains a mayor hotspot for successful natural resource management in the context of linking conservation and poverty alleviation. Currently, the Colombian legislature...