The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. [3]

2025年1月28日 · 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.

2022年11月8日 · The numbers are devastating: 17% of Amazon forests have been wholly lost, and an additional 17% are degraded. And data from the first half of 2022 show the loss continuing to grow.

Until 2015, approximately 8% of deforestation in the Amazon occurred within forests inhabited by indigenous peoples, while 88% occurred in areas outside of indigenous territories and protected areas, despite these areas comprising less than 50% of the total Amazon region.

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. And the billions of tons of carbon stored in the Amazon rain forest is of global importance to slowing climate change.

2023年2月20日 · Here’s why the Amazon rain forest is key to protecting Earth from the detrimental effects of climate change. A deforested and burnt area is seen on a stretch of the trans-Amazonian highway in...

2023年3月21日 · Between 2001 and 2020, the Amazon lost over 54.2 million hectares, or almost 9% of its forests, an area the size of France. The Brazilian Amazon, – home to 62% of the Amazon’s territory – was most affected, followed by Bolivia, Peru and Colombia.

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.

Deforestation in forests accounts for 11 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The Amazon produces 20% of the oxygen we breathe; The Amazon stores 80-120 billion tons of carbon, stabilizing our planet’s climate; 1/5 of the world’s fresh water is …

Amazonia is the largest tropical rainforest and river basin in the world, crucial to sustaining life on Earth. of all known species. The forests of Amazonia host the richest biodiversity of any terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. of all freshwater flows on the planet.