Amazon Rainforest Fires
The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest rainforest! Or is it…
These fires can cause a lot of impact to global warming, as the forest produces 20% of the worlds oxygen. The Amazon constitutes 25% of carbon sink globally, so losing it to the atmosphere is a huge problem towards global warming the smoke from the fires are visible from space.
This year Brazil has had around 72,000 wildfires and around half of those have been in the Amazon rainforest. This means every minute, one and a half soccer fields of the Amazon rainforest are being burned. Since this has happened an 80% increase in deforestation has occurred this year. Many scientists say that it could irreversibly turn into a dry savanna.
These fires can cause a lot of impact to global warming, as the forest produces 20% of the worlds oxygen. The Amazon constitutes 25% of carbon sink globally, so losing it to the atmosphere is a huge problem towards global warming the smoke from the fires are visible from space.
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