The Amazon rainforest is in bad shape.
Human activity, it turns out, is changing the Amazonian ecosystem at a rate hundreds to thousands of times faster than natural climate or geological phenomena, and making it extremely unlikely that Amazonian plantlife and wildlife will adapt fast enough. Perhaps most alarming is the revelation that more than a third of what’s left of the rainforest is suffering from profound degradation due to human activity.
The Amazon rainforest is home to nearly one-third of all known species on Earth. “There are more tree species in 100 square kilometers of lowland Amazon forest than there are in all of Europe,” said Albert. He added, “The biodiversity is simply stunning,” and one of the reasons many refer to their region as the “lungs of the planet.”
are enough to cause worsened storm events, cause sea levels to rise higher thanks to melting polar caps, and help contribute to hotter summers.studies arrive at a critical time. Besides pinpointing how fast the rainforest is changing, Albert’s study also identifies how the main drivers of deforestation and degradation—land-use changes, and global climate change—are leading to a drying up of the southern Amazon and encouraging forest fires to spring up more frequently.
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