The Amazon rainforest is being ravaged by flames. Soot from thousands of wildfires has blackened skies across Brazil, and the smoke is even visible from space. Brazil's Environmental Minister Ricardo Salles has been using Twitter to give updates on the devastating fires, writing in one...
In a release on Aug. 22, Greenpeace saidforest fires and climate change operate in a vicious circle. As the number of fires increase, greenhouse gas emissions do too. This makes the planet's overall temperature rise, the organization said. As the temperature increases, extreme weather eve...
But each year the Amazon fire season is getting longer and longer. This year the fire is worse than ever. In the first half of this year, more than 27, 800 fires happened in the rainforest.Some of the fires happened because of the dry weather, but most of them happened because of ...
On August 20th, Brazil’s Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles tweeted that dry weather, wind, and heat caused the fires to spread so widely. But even during the dry season, large fires aren’t a natural phenomenon in the Amazon’s tropical ecosystem. Deforestation in the...
Fires are burning in the Amazon rainforest at an alarming rate. French President Emmanuel Macron has said the record number of fires is now an "international crisis". There has been an 85 percent increase in fires in t...
Fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforest this year have been a hot topic as scientists and environmental groups are worried that they will worsen the climate change crisis and threaten biodiversity. As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon rainforest is often called "the lungs of...
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen a record number of fires this season, scorching vast areas of greenery known as the "lungs of the planet." Amazon Watch, a group that works to protect the rainforest and the indigenous people of the Amazon, says farmers have beensetting forests abla...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the fires in the Amazon rainforest are “not only heartbreaking, they are an international crisis.” “We stand ready to provide whatever help we can to bring them under control and help protect one of Earth’s greatest wonders,” Johnson added. ...
根据第四段中的“Gati's researchsuggests this south-eastern part of the forest, about 20 percentof the total area, has become a carbon source."可知,亚马孙雨林的东南部成为碳的来源。再根据第四段中的“A forestcan become a source of carbon rather than a store, or sink,when trees die and ...
I.阅读理解A Fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforest recently have been making the headlines as scientists and environmental groups are worried that they will worsen climate change crisis and endanger biodiversity(生态多样性).As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon rainforest is often...