Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest The Amazon rainforest is the largest remaining tract of lush, tropical forest on Earth, spanning 6.7 square kilometers in nine countries of South America. Fueled by intense
FEARS that global and local meteorological balances might be upset by the deforestation of the Amazon have made the destruction of the rainforest a matter of wide public concern. Elsewhere in this issue (Nature 342, 411-413; 1989), J. . 1989 Nature Publishing GroupRobert E. Dickinson...
Amazon Rainforest Research Paper Environmental groups started helping the Amazon because they realized the rainforest wasn’t as healthy and becoming smaller. Over the last forty years, twenty percent of the forest has been cleared. When trees are cleared or killed, carbon dioxide is emitted into...
One of the most famous failed infrastructures is the attempted construction of Brazil’s Trans-Amazonian Highway in the 1970’s. The 2,000 mile highway was planned to bisect the Amazon forest, openingrainforestland for settlement of poor farmers from the over crowded north as well as allowing...
Rainforest Deforestation Land Management and Conservation /08. Keeping rural lands free from urbanization and in good shape is important because of the environmental services. AMAZON BY: K. HARTWIG. PICTURES FACTS The Amazon rainforest also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a...
Lesson II –EffectsofDeforestationDeforestationis the removal or destruction of large areas of forest or rainforest.Deforestationhappens for many reasons‚ such as logging‚ agriculture‚ natural disasters‚ urbanization and mining. There are several ways to clear forest -- burning and clear-cutti...
Here are some of the more prominent examples of deforestation around the world: Amazon Deforestation 19. As you may have read in the news, deforestation in theAmazon rainforestis rapidly on the rise. According toThe Guardian, the slash-n-burn rates have risen dramatically since the election of...
rainforests, where species diversity is highest, habitat fragmentation and loss can have significant effects on animal populations. For example, deforestation threatens the habitats of the howler monkey in the Amazon rainforest and the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest region of the United...
A 2013 study by Princeton University researchers found that if the Amazon rainforest were completely destroyed, it would have a dramatic effect on the atmosphere, which would carry across to places like the United States, causing drought and potentially desertification there as well [12]. ...
For example, the Amazon Rainforest, the Colombian Rainforest and other small rainforests located in Central America. In 1990, rainforests were plentiful however until 2010, around an eighth of all the rainforests were cut down. The rainforest is mostly endangered by human interaction and climate ...