Rainforest Destruction and Climate Change
Spread over Africa, South America and Australasia, rainforests are the richest repositories of life forms on planet earth and its green lungs. One of our oldest ecosystems, rainforests are estimated to harbour 66% of all the species on earth! Today however many of the estimated 30-40 million species inhabiting these ecosystems are being lost, even before they can be catalogued, at a rate estimated at an astounding 50,000 species per year.
Not only are rainforests a vast repository of potential medicines they also play a vital role in producing oxygen and in maintaining global climatic patterns. The Amazon rainforests alone for example are responsible for 28% of the global oxygen turnover.
Climate Change – What Is It?
Climate change is an amazingly uncomplicated phrase for such a complex subject. Following, we have a go at defining climate change in today’s terms.
Climate Change – What is it?
In the current day lexicon of scientists, climate modification isn’t really a term of use anymore. The reason for this is that we have come to understand that the effect of the changes we make to our environment will increase the temperature in many locations on the planet, but will also cool a few places. In light of this, the thing you know of as climate modification is actually referred to as global climate change. Over all, however, the world is definitely warming.