The Amazon forests of Brazil are located on a continent where the Amazon forests are the lung in which the Earth breathes. It is the virgin forest of the American continent. The forests are being raided and their trees and plants are being bulldozed and turned into fast roads and residential cities, The manufacture and conversion of these drugs into toxins are smuggled all over the world through dangerous gangs with the help of some rulers and world dictatorships.
Scientists from Brazil and the United States have said the deforestation in the Amazon forest is greater than 60 percent.
The team completed a study using more sophisticated techniques than its predecessors based on satellite images, enabling it to capture human activities that were not previously possible
Traditional images did not show some aspects of the problem, such as the fact that woodcutters choose high-value trees as mahogany.
Researchers have used the U.S. Space Agency NASA resources. The study concluded that the areas devastated by rain forests in the Amazon between 1999 and 2002 were larger than expected in thousands of square kilometers.
The study also says the amount of carbon produced by human activities in the Amazon is 25 percent higher, enough to contribute to global warming.
Brazilian officials praised the study for highlighting only trees, but said the numbers were hard to believe.
Businessmen who exploit Amazon woods claim that cutting trees and leaving others is less harmful to the environment, but environmentalists say reaching high-quality trees requires building roads and bringing heavy equipment to the heartland.
The worst drought in more than 40 years also damaged the world's largest rainforests, ignited fires in the Amazon River basin, and affected people on the riverbeds with water pollution and millions of fish dying from dry schedules.
"The terrible thing for us is that all these fish have died and when the water returns there will not be any," said Donisvaldo Mendonka da Silva, a 33-year-old fisherman.
The governor of Amazonas declared the crisis in 16 municipalities where a two-month-old drought has affected residents of the river-bordering areas who can no longer find food or sell crops
Some scientists blame the high temperature of the ocean because of global warming, which is also linked to a series of deadly hurricanes that hit the United States and Central America recently.
Some scientists say the high air in the North Atlantic, which feeds the storms, may have caused the air to fall above Amazon and prevent the formation of clouds and rainfall
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