The biggest rainforest in the world, Amazon forests have started emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of absorbing carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A significant amount of deforestation in eastern and southeastern Brazil has turned the forest into a source of CO2 that has the ability to warm the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not only the Amazon rainforests, some forests in Southeast Asia have also turned into carbon sources in the last few years as a result of formation of plantations and fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Amazon basin is huge with an area covering over 6 million square kilometres, it is nearly twice the size of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Amazon rainforests cover about 80 per cent of the basin and as per NASA\u2019s Earth observatory, they are home to nearly a fifth of the world\u2019s land species and is also home to about 30 million people including hundreds of indigenous groups and several isolated tribes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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