Why is the Amazon Rainforest so important?

Описание: The Amazon Rainforest is important because of many reasons, Rainforests are often called the lungs of the planet for their role in absorbing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and increasing local humidity. Rainforests also stabilize climate, house incredible amounts of plants and wildlife, and produce nourishing rainfall all around the planet


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The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. The basin, roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States, covers some 40 percent of the South American continent and includes parts of eight South American countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as French Guiana, a department of France.

The basin is drained by the Amazon River, the world's largest river in terms of discharge, and the second longest river in the world after the Nile. The river is made up of over 1,100 tributaries, 17 of which are longer than 1000 miles, and two of which are larger, in terms of volume, than the Congo river.

Today the Amazon River is the most voluminous river on Earth, carrying more than five times the volume of the Congo or twelve times that of the Mississippi, draining an area nearly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States.

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The Amazon is home to more species of plants and animals than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet, perhaps 30 percent of the world's species are found there.

Why should the Amazon rainforest and other rainforests be protected?
Rainforests are natural air filters. They store and filter excess carbon and other pollutants from the atmosphere and release oxygen through photosynthesis. Without rainforests, our planet is unable to mitigate excess greenhouse gas emissions, which destabilizes the Earth's climate.
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00:00 Introduction
00:11 Amazon River basin
00:48 World Biggest rainforest
01:20 Amazon is the most voluminous river
02:08 Transpiration
02:34 Rainfall
02:54 Amazon Biodiversity
03:12 Human impact on Amazon
03:31 Amazon economy
03:49 Deforestation
04:22 Why rainforests should be protected?
04:34 Rainforests and climate