Amazon Basin
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| Did you know | The tropical Amazon Basin includes the Amazon River and surrounding areas, in South America, and it drains large volumes of water into the Atlantic Ocean. |
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About Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 6,300,000 km², or about 35. 5 percent that of the South American continent.
Amazon rainforest: Deforestation rate continues to fall
... Last month, President Lula hosted leaders from the eight countries that share the Amazon Basin at a summit in the city of Belém...
Amazon nations fall short of agreed goal to end deforestation
...By Christy Cooney in London & Katy Watson in Belém, BrazilBBC NewsThe eight countries that share the Amazon Basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation...
Drought robs Amazon communities of 'life-giving' river
... Such low water levels pose an existential threat to the estimated 30 million people that call the Amazon Basin home, including Mr Rufino s indigenous Ticuna people...
COP26: World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030
... Tuntiak Katan, coordinator of the Coordination of Indigenous Communities of the Amazon Basin, welcomed the deal telling BBC News that indigenous communities are on the frontline of stopping deforestation...
Deforested parts of the Amazon, emit more CO2 than they absorb'
... results from a decade-long study of greenhouse gases over the Amazon Basin appear to show about 20% of the entire area has become a net source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...
World 'losing battle against deforestation'
... Globally, net deforestation continues apace Tropical forest loss accounts for more than 90% of global deforestation, with the hotspot being located in Amazon Basin nations of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru...
Are fires in the Amazon and elsewhere getting worse?
... There is a similar pattern for other areas of Brazilian forestry that are not part of the Amazon Basin...
Amazon fires: Brazil governors push Bolsonaro to accept aid
...South American countries will meet to discuss a coordinated response to the fires ravaging the Amazon Basin next week, Brazil s President Jair Bolsonaro has announced...
