- Amazon Rainforest | Plants, Animals, Climate, Deforestation | Britannica
Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km) It is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several million species
- Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America
- The Amazon Rainforest - WorldRainforests. com
The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined As of 2020, the Amazon has 526 million hectares of primary forest, which accounts for nearly 84% of the region's 629 million hectares of total tree cover
- The Amazon Rainforest - Education
Mining, logging, ranching, agriculture, and oil and gas extraction have put unsustainable pressure on the delicate rain forests of the Amazon Basin Use this infographic to teach your students about Amazonia, also known as the Amazon rainforest ecosystem
- Amazon Rainforest | The Nature Conservancy
The Amazon rainforest is the largest remaining tropical forest on our planet It is home to: 1 3 of the world’s species; 1 4 of the world’s freshwater; 1 5 of the world’s forests; 48 billion tons of carbon dioxide in its trees; 200 indigenous and traditional communities
- Amazon | Places | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
The Amazon is critical to our efforts to avoid a climate catastrophe Water vapor released from the Amazon creates vast “flying rivers” in the atmosphere, which influence rainfall and thus agricultural production in central and southern South America
- Amazon Rainforest: Location, Climate, Ecosystem, Plants, Animals . . .
The Amazon Forest is the biggest rainforest in the world, covering nine countries with 5,500,000 km2 of forest cover This article seeks to highlight the qualities of this forest with regards to its location, climate, ecosystem, plants, animals, deforestation and precipitation
- The Amazon rainforest: The wonders of Earth’s most unexplored . . .
The Amazon rainforest is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world It’s also the most biodiverse One in ten of all known species are found here, including many that are endangered and found nowhere else
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