The deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has led to a significant decrease in the number of certain species. This is mainly because _. A. it destroys their habitats directly B. it changes the climate in the area slightly C. it has no impact on their food sources D. it only affects ...
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...
1 Studies of deforestation(采伐森林,毁坏森林) in Amazon rainforest have underestimated the actual extent of forest loss by half or more, according to a study published in the April 8, 1999, issue of the journal Nature. Past efforts to estimate deforestation in the Amazon have relied on satell...
Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction, two University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues have found....
A map tab namedBrazilian Rainforestis added to the project. It has three layers:Brazilian States,Amazon Ecoregion, andCitiesin the state of Rondônia. These layers are drawn on top of the default basemap, theWorld Topographic Map. To better see the characteristics of the rain forest, you'll...
[ 2024原创] New dat a showed that deforestation (cutting down trees) in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil dropped to its lowest in six years. INPE, Brazil's national space agency(航天局), announced on August 3, 2023 that deforestation declined 66% from the same time Loss of Amazon rainfor...
Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest Largest Environmental Concern Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon area Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. Extraction of natural resources Humans are removing trees for livestock (ranching), logging...
Rapid deforestation (毁林) of the Amazon rainforest could influence the temperature and precipitation (降水,降水量) over the Tibetan plateau 15, 000 kilometers away. Saini Yang at Beijing Normal University in China and her colleagues analyzed global climatological data from 1979 to 2019 to identify...
In the 20th century,Brazil’srapidly growing population settled major areas of the Amazon Rainforest. The size of the Amazon forest shrank dramatically as a result of settlers’ clearance of the land to obtain lumber and to create grazing pastures and farmland. Brazil holds approximately 60 percen...
Problems now * every second one and a half acres of the rainforest are cut. A lot of animals are already endangered. Such as the lemurs. Soil erosion is a major problem in the Amazon. Land is being lost, for example the Amazon rainforest covers over 2.2 million square mile, but over...