Question

What is the significance of the Amazon rain forest to the world? Explain in detail the environmental crisis caused by the recent fires in the Amazon rain forest

Answer 1

Answer:

The Amazon rainforest plays an important part in regulating the world's oxygen and carbon cycles.

• It produces roughly six percent of the world's oxygen and has long been thought to act as a carbon sink, meaning it readily absorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Answer 2

The Amazon rainforest is critical to regulating the world's oxygen and carbon cycles.

Amazon Rainforest:

• The Amazon rainforest, which encompasses much of northwestern Brazil and extends into Colombia, Peru, and other South American countries, is the world's largest tropical rainforest and is renowned for its biodiversity.
• It is traversed by thousands of rivers, including the mighty Amazon. River towns with 19th-century architecture from the rubber boom era include Manaus and Belém in Brazil and Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado in Peru.
• Because of its rainy climate, it is known as a rainforest.
• The Amazon rainforest, which has existed for 50 million years, is now under threat from human activities such as devastating fires set to clear acreage for ranching and agriculture, as well as mining for oil and gas, copper, iron, and gold.
• The Amazon Rainforest is the world's richest and most diverse biological reservoir, containing millions of species of insects, plants, birds, and other forms of life, many of which have yet to be discovered by science.
• The lush vegetation includes a wide range of trees.

What was the environmental impact of the Amazon rainforest fire?

• In the short term, fires destroy trees and plants that are critical to the functioning of a rainforest, potentially leading to local extinctions.
• Deforestation can result in out-of-control wildfires caused by humans burning vegetation.
• The smoke from these fires also interacts with clouds and the Sun, reducing additional rainfall and creating dry, fire-prone conditions.

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