One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon is industrial farming. Setting fire to the forest is one of the main ways humans get rid of trees. Burning trees also makes the forest hotter and drier, which makes it more flammable, so additional fires do more damage. How to sto...
However, within recent years understorey wildfires in tropical forests have become increasingly common (Goldammer, 1999), and an estimated 1 million km2 of Amazon forests were at risk of burning du...Turcq B, Sifeddine A, Martin L et al (1998) Amazonia rainforest fires: a lacustrine ...
The discovery is part of a new archaeological focus on the pre-Columbian Amazon. Within the past 20 years, researchers have learned that the rainforest's southern rim was home to a great diversity of soil-sculpting cultures that engineered the landscape before the Europeans arrived. Within the ...
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the Amazon Basin, the virus has killed 25 indigenous people in the rainforest and surrounding remote villages and more than 100 people in urban areas, according toThe New York Times. "As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the Amazon Basin...
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They often make their homes in trees in warm and wet tropical rainforests, including the Amazon rainforest in South America and the Congo Basin in Central Africa. Some species have adapted to living in harsh environments, such as desert-like savannas or snowy mountains. For example, Japanese ...
Amazon fires are an "international crisis," British prime minister says From CNN’s Vasco Cotovio GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the fires in the Amazon rainforest are “not only heartbreaking, they are an international crisis.” ...
Amazon fires are an "international crisis," British prime minister says From CNN’s Vasco Cotovio GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the fires in the Amazon rainforest are “not only heartbreaking, they are an international crisis.” ...