Warning: Amazon rainforest fire!

In August, some news reported that the Amazon rainforest has been burning for 3 weeks. The majority of Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil. It has another name called “the lung of the earth”. According to the Newsweek, 6% of the oxygen from photosynthesis comes from the Amazon. For most of the earth issues, the main reason is air pollution. So what are the effects of burning Amazon rainforest on the air of the earth? According to Cams, lots of carbon dioxide has been released (228 megatonnes) and the poisonous gas – carbon monoxide is emitted due to the burning of the rainforest. The atmosphere is being destroyed. However, residents there didn't stop cutting down the trees and even getting worsen ( diagram 1). It's easily to see that the monthly deforestation has been arrived to the peak on July 2019 from diagram 2.

 Diagram 1: Carbon Monoxide

Diagram 2: destruction in the Amazon

As the president of French said to the Brazilian presidency that we respect the sovereignty but Amazon affects the global sustainable development, ecological environment is closely related to human beings. We need to protect the biodiversity and ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest try our best. 

If you want to know more about Amazon rainforest burning, here's a video explaines some details that I didn't mentioned.


Thanks for your time.

-Qianrui Zhang

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