The Amazon Rainforest saw a 29 percent jump in deforestation last year, spelling bad news for one of the world’s most important forests and the future of humanity. According to the Guardian, final figures released by the Brazilian government earlier this week show satellite data indicating about 2,275 square miles of forest were cleared in a 12-month period ending in July, 2013. This news doesn’t bode well for global warming either, as the Amazon is a major carbon sink that absorbs more than 16.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year – or about a quarter of annual American emissions. And let’s not forget the massive amount of biodiversity in the Amazon that includes socres of species that have not yet been studied.
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