A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem that occurs roughly within 28 degrees north or south of the equator (equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn). They are characterised by their humidity (average of 88% in the rainy season and 77% in the dry season)‚ hot temperature (average 27.9 °C during the dry season and 25.8 °C during the rainy season) but more importantly their extremely high rainfall (torrential rainfall - between 1‚500 mm and 3‚000 mm annually). Tropical rainforests
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Danny Hernandez Dr. Katy Koch Writing 101: Research Paper 11 March 2010 Amazon Deforestation The Amazon rainforest the largest tropical area in the world‚ a vast and humid area where thousands of species of mammals‚ fish and insects have been unidentified by human; thus being the largest rainforest in the world‚ it is also the largest area of deforestation where football fields after fields are taken down a minute. The Amazon Deforestation being a growing issue amongst society in this generation
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Emerald Forest John Boorman’s 1985 film "The Emerald Forest" begins with the point of view of a white family out on a picnic. Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) is the supervisor of a dam construction site on the edge of the Amazon rainforest‚ which looms menacingly. He warns his children to stay out of the forest‚ since there are dangerous things inside it. By the end of the film‚ the point of view becomes entirely reversed. It is the forest that is the safe haven and it is the outside "civilized" world
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oxygen levels dramatically‚ which would increase the global warming. Deforestation is mostly experienced between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn especially in the Brazilian part of the Amazon‚ which covers 33% of the world’s rainforests. "Save the greenery Enjoy the scenery Don’t cut our green friends Or it will be the end of all trends" PROBLEMS OF DEFORESTION First of all‚ many medicines come from plants. Most of the Amazon’s plants have yet to be discovered and catalogued
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21st Century Problems: Deforestation Senator Bill Brady stated‚ “Every time I have some moment on seashore‚ or in the mountains‚ or sometimes in a quiet forest‚ I think this is why the environment has to be preserved‚” but unfortunately in our vast society‚ the environment is having a hard time finding a place in our competitive resource era. Acres of forest are being mowed down by companies to feed their ever growing corporate empires and without being conscious about the problem that leads
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One and a half acres of the rain forest-“the Lung of the Earth”‚ are lost every second. In fact‚ they now cover only a mere 6% of the earth’s land surface compared with 14% when humankind first settled. Experts estimate that the last remaining rain forests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Obviously‚ deforestation has been becoming an alarming phenomenon for the whole world. Writing about this issue‚ Laura Lopen‚ John Maier and Dick Thompson express some quite strong opinions. In “Playing
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In her article "Carving up the Amazon" (Nature 3/22/2014)‚ Barbara Fraser descripes the effects of road construction and deforestation in the Amazon and on a global scale. Fraser states that rainforest destruction began in the 1970s. Since then‚ the road network has extended year by year. The forest must be cut down and the roads offer a way to penetrate the forest and destroy large parts of it. This causes changes in the remaining forest. One of the consequences of the construction of roads is
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Nathan Updike English 101 Unit Four Project: Deforestation in the Amazon The Amazon Jungle is the world’s largest tropical rainforest. It is nearly 6 million square kilometers in size and houses the widest variety of plant and animal life than any other place on the planet. It also is home to the second largest river on Earth‚ the Amazon River. The jungle is mostly in Brazil‚ but it also spreads to eight neighboring countries in South America; Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Venezuela‚ Guyana
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of farmers‚ who cut down trees to produce crops for their families and local consumption. But in the 20th century‚ that began to change by industrial activities‚ agriculture and cattle ranching. The Amazon have over half of the earth’s remaining rainforest‚ which is a home to many living plants and animals‚ Over the past 40 years‚ around 20% of the Amazon has been cut down‚ which plays an important role in the global carbon
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Sister Dorothy was a woman who wanted to get her word out and make what people thought was impossible‚ possible. That is one of the reasons why I admire her the most‚ she was convinced that she was able to rebuild the forest to make it where it was before. I also admired her courageousness to step out and do the job even though she was on the death list in the Amazon. She knew what she was doing everyday was a possibility of her getting punished by the gunmen. There are not a lot of people in this
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