The Amazon rainforest is shrinking at an alarming rate. Currently, we are losing one “football field” of Amazon forest every single minute. Raging fires, deforestation, and global warming are tearing the mighty rainforest apart as we speak, and just this year, there were a record 74,000 fires in Brazil. Yes, “The Earth’s Lungs” are facing a potential wipeout from the face of the earth, but if the Amazon did, in fact, disappear completely, the consequences would be harrowing.
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