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  2. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon represents over half of the total area of remaining rainforests on Earth, [4] and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees in about 16,000 species.

  3. Amazon biome - Wikipedia

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    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. The somewhat vague numbers are because the rainforest merges into ...

  4. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km 2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests.

  5. The 10 Most Beautiful Forests Around the World to Add ... - AOL

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    The largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest covers much of northwestern Brazil and stretches into other South American countries. The 2,300,000-square-mile wonderland of biodiversity is ...

  6. The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest, and two-thirds of it is in Brazil. It is a crucial natural resource on a number of levels, ...

  7. Amazon rainforest destruction slows sharply year to date ...

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    The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, helps to curb global warming because its trees absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide. The drop coincides with a shift since last year to pro ...

  8. Amazon basin - Wikipedia

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    The highest point in the watershed of the Amazon is the second biggest peak of Yerupajá at 6,635 metres (21,768 ft). The Amazon River Basin occupies the entire central and eastern area of South America, lying to the east of the Andes mountain range and extending from the Guyana Plateau in the north to the Brazilian Plateau in the south.

  9. WWF’s biennial Living Planet report said the world’s largest rainforest has been ravaged by deforestation, extreme drought and catastrophic wildfires to such an extent that the ecosystem could ...