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Bookmark or Share- Here are our top facts about the Amazon | WWFThe vast and vibrant Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world and plays a critical role in our fight against climate change.
- Amazon | Places | WWF - World Wildlife FundWater vapor released from the Amazon creates vast “flying rivers” in the atmosphere, which influence rainfall and thus agricultural production in central and southern South America. And the billions of tons of carbon stored in the Amazon rain forest is of global importance to slowing climate change.
- The Amazon Rainforest - EducationThe Amazon Basin supports the world’s largest rainforest, which accounts for more than half the total volume of rainforests in the world. Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela, the Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest drainage system.
- Amazon rainforest - WikipediaThe 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]
- Amazon Rainforest - Encyclopedia BritannicaAmazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km).
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