Staggering tree loss from 2005 Amazon storm
WASHINGTON — A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows.
WASHINGTON — A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported in July that 869 species are extinct now.
Scientists have just discovered, let’s say, (fortunately) met with the fossil of Titanoboa cerrejonensis (not with the living Giant).
According to January 2008 Greenpeace report Amazon deforestation rate is high again although local officials claim the opposite. Greenpeace assumes that in 2007 from August – December, 7000 sq. km of the rainforest has been destroyed.