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	Amazon Rainforest
		Tens of millions of acres of rainforest are covered by water as the flood advances, reaching as far inland from the main channel as 12 miles.
		The Amazon rainforest is the drainage basin for the Amazon River and its many tributaries.
		The main layer of the rainforest is the canopy.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /amazon.htm (1537 words)

	The Amazon Rainforest
		The basin is drained by the Amazon River, the world's largest river in terms of discharge, and the second longest river in the world after the Nile.
		The rise of the Andes and the linkage of the Brazilian and Guyana bedrock shields, blocked the river and caused the Amazon to become a vast inland sea.
		Today the Amazon River is the most voluminous river on Earth, eleven times the volume of the Mississippi, and drains an area equivalent in size to the United States.
	rainforests.mongabay.com /amazon (752 words)

	Amazon Rainforest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amazon Rainforest (Portuguese "Floresta Amazônica" or "Amazônia") is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America.
		Their deforestation estimates are derived from 100 to 220 images taken during the dry season in the Amazon by the Landsat satellite, and only consider the loss of the Amazon rainforest biome – not the loss of natural fields or savannah within the rainforest.
		A new report by a Brazilian congressional committee says the Amazon is vanishing at a rate of 52,000 square kilometers per year (20,000 miles² per year), over three times the rate for which the last official figures were reported in 1994, at this rate the Amazon rainforest will be gone by 2050.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amazon_rainforest (2558 words)

	Amazon Rainforest - Simple English Wikipedia
		The Amazon Rainforest is the forest that grows in the tropical and subtropical basin of the Amazon River.
		In 1996, the Amazon was reported to have a 34 per cent increase in deforestation since 1992.
		At a conference in July 2004, scientists warned that the rainforest will no longer be able to absorb the millions of tons of greenhouse gases annually, as it usually does, because of the increased speed of rainforest destruction.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amazon_Rainforest (812 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Amazon Rainforest (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amazon Rainforest Caption: River in Amazon by carapana: Small river in amazon.
		The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America.
		The Amazon rainforest is the biggest forest in the world and is also the last big space covered with tropical plants and animals.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Amazon-Rainforest (473 words)

	The Amazon Rainforest: More Valuable Alive Than Dead. Acupuncture Today, December 2003
		The Amazon rainforest can be considered the mother of botanical resources, with over 200,000 species of plants thriving in the tropical paradise.
		With the ecological and sustainable harvesting of wild plants of the Amazon rainforest, the people living in the jungle preserve their land and culture, and potentially the lives of hundreds of thousands of people suffering with degenerative issues.
		By carefully choosing rainforest products that are sustainably harvested, like wild-crafted herbs, instead of wood products, whose harvesting destroys the forest and all of the life that resides within, we can make a difference - in the future of the rainforest and in the health of ourselves, our patients and our planet.
	www.acupuncturetoday.com /archives2003/dec/12taylorstuppel.html (937 words)

	Save the Amazon Rainforest \| Amazon River - Rainforest Animals
		The Amazon rainforest is the biggest forest in the world and is also the last big space covered with tropical plants and animals.
		The Amazon forest territory is a tropical rainforest that is located in the north side of the South American continent and is shared by 9 countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana and Guiana.
		A rainforest has trees, like any other forest, but they are very different from the temperate forest you are used to seeing in colder places like in US, Europe and parts of Asia.
	www.amazon-rainforest.org (696 words)

	Rainforest Facts
		Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
		Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.
		Rainforests represent a store of living and breathing renewable natural resources that for eons, by virtue of their richness in both animal and plant species, have contributed a wealth of resources for the survival and well-being of humankind.
	www.rain-tree.com /facts.htm (8355 words)

	Amazon Stonehenge suggests advanced ancient rainforest culture
		The discovery of an ancient astrological observatory in Brazil lends support to the theory that the Amazon rainforest was once home to advanced cultures and large sedentary populations of people.
		The idea that the Amazon is not an untouched wilderness but the product of extensive management by large human populations sharply contrasts with long-held views that the region was sparsely populated by tribal groups who peacefully coexisted with the apparently hostile environment that surrounded them.
		In her work, based on the collection of soil samples during the 1960s, Meggars concluded that the soil in Amazon region was so poor it could not possibly support the intensive agriculture necessary for the establishment and maintenance of large communities.
	news.mongabay.com /2006/0514-amazon.html (2401 words)

	Amazon Rainforest
		The Amazon comprises about 4 million km2 (50% of the Brazilian territory), from which 200.000 km2 in 2001 were designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve.
		The Amazon basin was formed by deposition of sediments from a lake called "Belterra" which covered the area during the tertiary period between 2 and 25 million years ago.
		This part of the Amazon Forest, especially rich in epiphytal araceaes, is relatively poor in bromeliads and orchids, in comparison to the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica).
	www.brazadv.com /brazil_tours/amazon_rainforest.asp (655 words)

	News in Science - Amazon rainforest drunk on carbon dioxide - 11/03/2004
		Even in pristine rainforests unaffected by human activities such as logging or burning, researchers have noticed dramatic differences in the growth patterns of trees over the past 20 years.
		They are the species that give the Amazon its reputation as a vital "sink" that can suck up CO Levels of CO have risen by 30% in the past 200 years because of emissions from vehicles and industry, and rapid forest burning, particularly in the tropics.
		The scientists suspect the rising CO levels are fertilising the rainforests and increasing competition for light, water and nutrients in the soil.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1063624.htm (520 words)

	About Amazon John - Amazon Rainforest Herbs
		There was of course the exhaustion, the fevers, the dysentery, the parasites and other similar benefits too unsavory to discuss, not the least of which was the wounded ego of a treasure hunter with an empty basket.
		The plants from the Amazonian Rainforest serve as a store of nutrients, as well as trace elements and minerals from the rich soil of this environment.
		The true value of the Rainforest botanicals lies not only in their rich nutrient value, trace minerals and phyto-pharmacological properties, but in the stored information of a thousand generations of ecological harmony.
	www.amazon-life.com /aboutamazonjohnherbs.shtml (1785 words)

	Amazon Rainforest Discoveries
		Because the Amazon rainforest still keeps its original ecosystem features (when compared with all other ecosystems in the planet), natural sciences researches in that region can be very effective and discover important things, not only about the Amazon rainforest or its past, but for the whole world.
		For anthropologists the Amazon rainforest is a unique place to research the indigenous culture and life style.
		Actually, this urge has spread all over the world, as the Amazon rainforest is the most obvious place to conduct research, combining the biggest biological diversity of the planet and a lot of traditional knowledge that gives crucial clues on what to look for and where.
	www.amazon-rainforest.org /discoveries.html (605 words)

	Amazon Rainforest Fauna
		The Tapir is the largest herbivore (350-600 pounds) in the Amazon rainforest and it's a very ancient mammal.
		Because of this the Tapir became a major player in the dissemination of plants in the Amazon rainforest region.
		The biggest feline in the Americas, the Jaguar is a powerful hunter on top of the food chain, known for their camouflage spots and the ability to climb trees.
	www.amazon-rainforest.org /fauna.html (738 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Diary: The Amazon rainforest
		It's a symposium on the future of the Amazon organised by the so-called "Green Patriarch", the head of the Orthodox Church who has long taken an active interest in environmental issues.
		The speeches are strong - the theme is the Amazon as a source of life - but I find myself gazing out of a window as the clouds darken and a vicious wind hurls rain horizontally across the river itself.
		I start to explain that since then scientists have established the Amazon's vital role in the global climate, but it is horribly early in the day, a bumpy ride is making me feel queasy and I sense that I am utterly unconvincing and unprepared for the argument to come.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/5184332.stm (1878 words)

	Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Plants, Amazon River Animals
		But despite its natural richness, the Amazon ecosystem is fragile and in peril.
		The immensity of the Amazon's challenge, like the scale of its landscape, requires a long-term conservation vision, backed by strong scientific expertise and the commitment of a global network of resources.
		These are precisely the strengths that World Wildlife Fund has applied to its more than 30 years of work to protect and preserve the Amazon and the animals that inhabit this ecological wonder.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/amazon/index.cfm (191 words)

	Amazon River; world's greatest river
		he Amazon is the greatest river in the world by so many measures; the volume of water it carries to the sea (approximately 20% of all the freshwater discharge into the oceans), the area of land that drains into it, and its length and width.
		The mouth of the Amazon River, where it meets the sea, is so wide and deep that ocean-going ships have navigated its waters and traveled as far inland as two-thirds the way up the entire length of the river.
		The sheer volume of rain in the Amazon jungle, as well as the slope of the surrounding land, combine to create the enormous river known as the Amazon.
	www.extremescience.com /AmazonRiver.htm (815 words)

	Amazon Rainforest
		Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a primary factor in absorption and release of CO2 from the Amazon Basin.
		The Amazon Basin, during the time period of 1980-1994, was a sink on average, due to the increase in photosynthesis caused by the rise in atmospheric CO2.
		Therefore, the carbon emissions from deforestation in the Amazon is based on two factors, "...the immediate loss of carbon to the atmosphere from plant material burned at the time of clearing, [and] the slower release of carbon from decay of dead plant material left on site" (Houghton 2000:301).
	www-personal.umich.edu /~mnwalsh/amazon.html (2754 words)

	infos: amazon rainforest topography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amazon rainforest journeys through the last of South America's Amazon jungle.
		Rainforest Portal is a rainforest conservation portal and search engine committed to protection of...
		The Amazon rainforest has won a temporary reprieve from the on-going invasion by soya farmers...
	www.untermtisch.de /amazon_rainforest_topography.html (235 words)

	Amazon \| Greenpeace International (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All this is threatened by deforestation fuelled by a demand for cheap supplies of plywood and tropical timber locally and abroad or the agricultural invasion to grow commodities such as soy mainly used to feed animal in European countries.
		Between 60 and 80 percent of all logging in the Brazilian Amazon is estimated to be illegal and more than one million hectares within the Amazon rainforests are already being use to grow soy.
		The Amazon rainforest is not only one of the richest and most biologically diverse regions on the planet, it is also one of the most threatened.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/campaigns/forests/amazon (448 words)

	Amazon Rainforest Destruction
		Take that and the fact that the Amazon population is actually small for the area the forest covers and you will see that the problem is not the local population, but they are just instruments in hands of profit mongers.
		The two that are the most responsible for the actual deforestation occurring in the Amazon rainforest are agriculture and cattle.
		So, the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed just like all the other forests in the world, including the ones in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa and there will be nothing able to stop this process unless a strategy is developed that has the environmental condition as a factor of wealth and well being.
	www.amazon-rainforest.org /destruction.html (740 words)

	The Amazon in the Electronic Passport
		The Amazon River basin is possibly the earth’s most fragile and necessary ecosystem.
		The Amazon River basin is a rainforest or jungle.
		The rainforest of the Amazon River basin provides a valuable resource to the entire planet, but it is being destroyed.
	www.mrdowling.com /712-amazon.html (392 words)

	Amazon Rainforest Tours Margarita Expeditions
		Amazon birds range from colorful and conspicuous to species so secretive that it requires incredible patience and a touch of luck to see them.
		Either as the grand finale to an in-classroom course, or as a mini-course in itself, an Amazon trip could be the course of the year, and something that participants remember fondly for a lifetime.
		Insects dominate the Amazon rainforest in numbers and animal biomass, so even the most dedicated butterfly enthusiast will become interested in the other insects and arthropods that can be encountered.
	www.amazon-ecotours.com /expeditions.htm (3814 words)

	Amazon herbs rainforest healing foods - Linda Wemhoff
		For 22 years, John Easterling, founder of the Amazon Herb Company, developed relationships with the indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest.
		John recovered his health and took it to a new level with energy and mental clarity he'd not had for years.
		She, along with the tribal healers, taught him about the healing potential of the Rainforest plants.
	www.amazonfoods.com (555 words)

	Amazon Rainforest
		In the rainforests, logging, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction, hydroelectric dams and subsistence farming are the leading causes of habitat destruction.
		Indirectly, the leading threats to rainforest ecosystems are unbridled development, funded by international aid-lending institutions such as the World Bank, and the voracious consumer appetites of industrialized nations.
		The ecological issues effecting the Amazon are planetary in scope (species that are forever lost from the face of the Earth, forest destruction, the Greenhouse problem, loss of water sheds, destruction of farm land and top soil, destruction of ancient cultures and loss of nature's pharmacopoeia).
	earthrenewal.org /rainless_2.htm (1022 words)

	Amazon Rainforests! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The rainforest lies in a basin drained largely by the Amazon River, with 1,100 tributaries.
		A new report by a congressional committee says the Amazon is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year, over three times the rate for which the last official figures were reported, in 1994.
		One hectare in the Peruvian Amazon has been calculated to provide potential earnings of $6,820 per year if intact forest is sustainably harvested for fruits, latex, and timber; $1,000 if clear-cut for commercial timber (not sustainably harvested); or $148 if used as cattle pasture.
	www.redjellyfish.com /rain-forest/amazon-rainforest.html (484 words)

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