The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse...
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The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon...
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help achieve zero net deforestation by 2020. Due to deforestation the Amazon was a net emitter of greenhouse gas in the 2010s. The effects include "severe...
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mining, leading to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Such activity is generally illegal within these nations, but enforcement of environmental protection...
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Brazil: Deforestation rises sharply as farmers push into Amazon, The Guardian, 1 September 2008 China is black hole of Asia's deforestation, Asia News...
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These are areas of mature rainforest that are especially important for biodiversity and carbon storage. The direct cause of most deforestation is agriculture...
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accompanies these fires mirror the patterns of deforestation and "high deforestation rates led to frequent fires". The Amazon rainforest has recently experienced...
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Blackstone Inc. (redirect from The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc.)
deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. In 2019, a United Nations report found that Blackstone's massive purchasing of single-family homes after the 2007–2008...
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many birds in the Amazon. Birds migrate to the Amazon rainforest from the North or South. Amazon birds are threatened by deforestation since they primarily...
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Ecosystem collapse (redirect from Rainforest collapse)
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is the most dramatic example of a massive, continuous ecosystem and a biodiversity hotspot being under the immediate...
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The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is...
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there. Rainforests as well as endemic rainforest species are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation, the resulting habitat loss and pollution of the atmosphere...
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Peruvian Amazonia (redirect from Peruvian Amazon rainforest)
as the Peruvian jungle (Spanish: selva peruana) or just the jungle (Spanish: la selva), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes...
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The Amazon biome (Portuguese: Bioma Amazônia) contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of...
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Some 80% of logging in the Amazon is illegal. In 2008, Brazil's government announced a record rate of deforestation in the Amazon. Deforestation jumped...
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These are areas of mature rainforest that are especially important for biodiversity and carbon storage. The direct cause of most deforestation is agriculture...
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2024 South American wildfires (category 2024 in the environment)
conditions. The wildfires caused significant deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and also impacted several other international biomes including the Pantanal...
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Some of the Amazon rainforests are deforested because of an increase in cattle ranches and soybean fields. The Amazon basin formerly flowed west to the Pacific...
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Southwestern North American megadrought (category Droughts in the United States)
deforestation of the Amazon rainforest can strongly exacerbate drought conditions in the western states of the USA. According to the study "an Amazon...
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TerraLib (redirect from TerraAmazon)
queries. Another application is TerraAmazon, Brazil's national database for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. It handles more than 2 million...
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Mennonites (redirect from Mennonites in the United States)
driver of environmental damage, notably deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through land clearance for agriculture. The early history of the Mennonites...
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forest, after the Amazon rainforest. It covers over 500,000,000 acres (2,000,000 km2) across six countries and contains a quarter of the world's remaining...
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Flying river (category Amazon basin)
and examine the possibility that recent droughts in the country are being caused by the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. This is the Flying Rivers...
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Resource depletion (redirect from Depletion of resources)
These are areas of mature rainforest that are especially important for biodiversity and carbon storage. The direct cause of most deforestation is agriculture...
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Sustainable development (redirect from History of sustainable development)
The most cost-effective climate change mitigation options include afforestation, sustainable forest management, and reducing deforestation. At the local...
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in the 20th century as actions of genocide. The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has been highlighted as a driving factor in the destruction of indigenous...
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the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and by other observers as one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century. Since the time of Sumer...
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inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest altered the forest's ecology by selective cultivation and the use of fire. Scientists argue that by burning areas of the forest...
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March 2021. The song and its music video address the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest; the video depicts the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires, native...
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territory. The region is mostly covered by tropical rainforest, or jungle, which is a part of the greater Amazon rainforest. The region is bounded by the East...
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