Deforestation is increasing in the Amazon rainforest: an area five times larger than New York.
The Forecast 3 years ago General
The Amazon rainforest is spread across 9 countries like Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador in South America with an area of ​​several hundred thousand square kilometers. Its area is larger than the entire European Union. The Amazon has more plants and animals than any other place in the world.
But over the past few years, the Amazon rainforest has been decimated by deforestation. In particular, it has been reported that an area five times larger than New York City has been destroyed in Brazil's Amazon rainforest this year alone.
Between January and June 2022, 3,988 square kilometers (1,540 square miles) of the Amazon rainforest were destroyed, according to the National Space Research Institute Inbay. Researchers have warned that deforestation in the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, will not only warm the atmosphere further but also cause climate change, they have warned.
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