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Drought, forest fires turn Amazon into a source of carbon emissions
Prolonged drought with widespread forest fires is reducing the carbon uptake of the world's largest rainforest.
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The Amazon River emits most of the carbon absorbed by the Amazon
The Amazon River emits almost all of the carbon absorbed by the tropical rainforest. The Amazon rainforest, which is considered to be the lungs of the earth, absorbs car…
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Amazon's freshwater ecosystem is sensitive to environmental degradation
River, lake and wetland ecosystems - covering about one fifth of the Amazon basin - are increasingly degraded by deforestation, pollution, construction of dams and water…
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Detects shock under the Arctic ice shelf
This finding was compared to NASA's finding the Amazon rainforest in the heart of the Mojave desert. DailyMail page reported, scientists have found an extremely interest…
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Amazon underground river is not ... river
Brazil's Amazon underground river is not a river in the usual sense even though its existence has been confirmed in a report published last week at Brazil's scientific c…
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Detecting underground river below
Brazilian scientists have discovered an underground river at a depth of about 4,000 meters below the Amazon.
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2010: The Year of the Earth
In 2010, filled with anomalous weather phenomenon, was considered the hottest and humid year, and in many different areas on the record dry and cold earth in history.
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Protection of tropical forests: three main obstacles
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in 2005 the earth had only 4 billion hectares of forest, covering 31% of the area. About…
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The higher the price of gold, the more destroyed the Amazon forest
The price of gold is increasing in proportion to the destruction of the Amazon forest and the mercury pollution environment is getting worse.
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The Amazon River hydropower project continues
The federal high court in Brazil ruled to continue the construction of the Monte Belo dam project on the Amazon River, according to the BBC on March 3.
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Drought in the Amazon forest causes climate change
On February 9, experts from the Amazon rainforest in South America have accelerated the climate change process in the meteorological regions of the United Nations and in…
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Tropical forests disappeared 300 million years ago
Global warming has cleared tropical forests about 300 million years ago. This event takes place in the Carbon, ...
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The largest river water level in the world is a record low
The severe drought in northern Brazil this year caused the water level of the Amazon River to fall to its lowest level in 47 years.
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Brazil finds the world's largest source of freshwater
The new Amazon River aquifer discovered by the scientists is the world's largest underground freshwater reserve known to date.
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7 changes if the Earth gets hotter
If the earth's temperature continues to rise, the Amazon rainforest can become desert, the Maldives island nation can disappear forever, and the Sahara desert will becom…