TheAmazon rainforesthas been onfire for the past month, and Brazil has declared a state of emergency in the region. The fires are destroying the homes of indigenous tribes and threateningmillions of animal species. One tribal chief described the halting response of Brazil's president, Jair ...
Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, on August 21, 2019. Deforestation Carl De Souza / AFP/Getty Images Aerial picture showing a deforested piece of land in the Amazon rainforest near an area affected by fires, about 40...
“There is no doubt in my mind that a Mercosur trade agreement cannot be justified without guarantees that the rainforest will be protected,” Schulze said. The German environment minister went on to say: “The images of the fires raging in the Amazon region are shocking. The rainforest, a...
sensitive” to fire, Jos Barlow, a professor of conservation science at Lancaster University in the UK, said toThe Vergein an email. According to Barlow, even low-intensity fires with flames just 30 centimeters tall can kill up to half of the trees burned in a tropical rainfor...
As the Amazon rainforest burns at unprecedented levels, new satellite imagery from NASA shows an enormous cloud of poisonous carbon monoxide rising from the devastation.
阅读理解AThe Amazon Rainforest is on fire. There are more fires burning there than everbefore according to a report, Using satellites to take pictures of deforestation andwildfire, experts have found 74, 155 fires in the Amazon this year. That's an 84%increase over last year at this time...
There’s no question that several parts of the Amazon rainforest are on fire, and humans are likely the cause of the blazes. In Brazil alone, there are 80% more fires in 2019 than there were last year, according to the country’s space research center. More than half of the fires ...
Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.
Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images CNN— Scientists are on high alert that the Amazon is careening toward a destructive fire season. Parts of Brazil and its typically lush rainforest are parched by drought and loaded with fire-kindling fuel after a surge of deforestation in 2020. ...
/Make laws to stop cuttingdown more trees in the rainforest.【长难句分析】He wants to change current laws that protect the Amazon sobusinesses can get more land for commercial use.他希望改变保护亚马逊的现行法律,以便企业能够获得更多的土地用于商业用途。so连接表示因果关系的两个分句;第一个分句是...