Area bigger than Taiwan burning in Amazon
While the Amazon rainforest is typically humid, forest fires are common during the dry season from July to October. They can be caused by naturally occurring events, such as lightning, but also by farmers and loggers.
Many people are deeply concerned about the fires because more than 2,500 spots are burning now.
The Amazon basin is crucial to regulating global warming, with its forests absorbing millions of tons of carbon emissions every year. When trees are burned, the carbon they are storing is released into the atmosphere. This makes the planet’s overall temperature rise, followed by extreme weather events such as droughts, further affecting biodiversity, agriculture and human health.
亞馬遜雨林通常潮溼，但是在每年7到10月的乾旱季節，森林火災是常見現象。森林火災可能是自然因素造成，例如閃電，也有可能是人為，例如農耕或伐木。
許多人非常關心這場森林大火，因為現在總共有超過2500個點在燃燒中。
亞馬遜盆地對於控制全球暖化是非常重要的，因為亞馬遜雨林吸收了每年好幾百萬噸的二氧化碳碳排放。當樹木燃燒，樹木吸收的二氧化碳就排放到大氣層中。這使得整個地球整體溫度上升，緊接著就是極端氣候會出現，像是乾旱，最終會影響到生物多樣性、農業發展、以及人類健康。
Key Words:
- humid (a.) 潮濕的
- crucial (a.) 重要的
- regulate (v.) 控管
- emission (n.) 排放
- atmosphere (n.) 大氣層；氣氛
- drought (n.) 旱災
- biodiversity (n.) 生物多樣性
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