Nearly 93,000 Square Miles of Amazon Rainforest Destroyed In 10 Years

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Close to 93,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest—an area nearly as large as the United Kingdom—were destroyed by deforestation between 2000 and 2010, according to a report by environmental watchdog group Amazon Informational Network.

(Photo via indigenous.youth-leader.org)Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest releases large quantities of CO2, which form part of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.

Of the rainforest’s 2.4 million square miles, 63 percent is in Brazil—where 80.4 percent of that deforestation occurred, said the Amazon Informational Network, composed of 11 environmental groups in 8 South American countries and French Guiana, all of which share the rainfores

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If the greed in man had its way, we would all live on a huge concrete skyscraper called earth and it would be disgusting.  If that ever does happen, send me to mars please.  Good thing the environment has protectors these days.   The Green Party, Activists, ELF?  I consider myself an environmentalist, not a very active one but i don’t litter and i do try to get the word out about sad events like these so that people are aware of what they are doing to their home.  Peace..  ~Ophelia

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