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  2. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

  3. Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon ...

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    PHOTO: Aerial view of an illegal fire in the Amazon rainforest on the banks of the BR-230 (Transamazon Highway), near the city of Labrea, Amazonas state, northern Brazil, Sept. 4, 2024.

  4. Brazil faces record wildfires and drought — and it may only ...

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    Brazil’s extreme drought is continuing to fuel arid conditions that have resulted in record wildfires in the Amazon.. The flames of tens of thousands of fires have torn over millions of acres ...

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    A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in the middle of one of the major rivers of the Amazon basin that is ...

  6. Amazon biome - Wikipedia

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    In Brazil the biome covers more than 4,100,000 square kilometres (1,600,000 sq mi) and covers all or parts of the states of Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins and Mato Grosso. [7] The Amazon biome covers 49.29% of Brazil. [8] 16% of the biome is in Peru. As of 2015 about 23.4% of Peru's Amazon biome was ...

  7. Amazon River - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon basin, the largest in the world, covers about 40% of South America, an area of approximately 7,050,000 km2(2,720,000 sq mi). It drains from west to east, from Iquitosin Peru, across Brazil to the Atlantic. It gathers its waters from 5 degrees north latitudeto 20 degrees south latitude.

  8. BRASILIA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva, preliminary government data showed on ...

  9. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    Deforestation in the Maranhão state, Brazil, in July 2016. The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km 2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests. The Amazon region includes the territories of ...

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