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Satellites in September recorded 32,017 hotspots in the world's largest rainforest, a 61% rise from the same month in 2019. [140] In addition, October saw a huge surge in the number of hotspots in the forest (more than 17,000 fires are burning in the Amazon's rainforest) – with more than double the amount detected in the same month last year ...
Tropical rainforests have been called the "jewels of the Earth" and the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered there. [2] Rainforests as well as endemic rainforest species are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation, the resulting habitat loss and pollution of the atmosphere. [3]
Most of the interior of the Amazon basin is covered by rainforest. [6] The dense tropical Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. [2] It covers between 5,500,000 and 6,200,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 and 2,400,000 sq mi) of the 6,700,000 to 6,900,000 square kilometres (2,600,000 to 2,700,000 sq mi) Amazon biome.
Great Bear Rainforest, Canada. One of the largest temperate rainforests in the world, Great Bear Rainforest covers a vast area the size of Ireland that’s rife with rugged beauty along its ...
It contains some of the largest tropical rainforests in the world and is an important source of water used in agriculture and energy generation. [1] The rainforest in the Congo Basin is the largest rainforest in Africa and second only to the Amazon rainforest in size, with 300 million hectares compared to the 800 million hectares in the Amazon. [2]
Tropical rainforests have been called the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered within them. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It is likely that there may be many millions of species of plants, insects and microorganisms still undiscovered in tropical rainforests.
The Great Bear Rainforest [2] [3] is a temperate rain forest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, comprising 6.4 million hectares. [4] It is part of the larger Pacific temperate rainforest ecoregion, which is the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the world. [3] [5]
Temperate rain forests, such as this in British Columbia's Vancouver Island, often grow right up to the shoreline. The Pacific temperate rainforests of western North America is the largest temperate rain forest region on the planet as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (other definitions exist).