Amazon River Basin and Its Vast World Significance
Earth Day feature explains the Amazon River Basin in South America. Dr. America Brazil, a fictional Smithsonian field biologist, introduces the basin's size, railway of rivers, 1500 tributaries, and the one fifth of the world’s river water it carries. Flooding, housing on stilts, and 17 million residents, including 250000 indigenous people, illustrate life along the river.
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The Amazon Rain Forest and Its Rich Biodiversity
The Amazon basin hosts the world’s largest tropical rainforest with year round warmth in the 70s and 80s. It receives 80 to 120 inches of rain annually as plants transpire and moisture travels to form clouds and rain. Biodiversity is immense with mammals fish amphibians reptiles birds and insects thriving in a warm damp climate. The photo hints at flooded areas and plants adapting to long underwater periods while humans and wildlife adjust. Mining and land clearances threaten the forest, raising concern for its future.
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