Tag: Amazon rainforest
How the Asteroid that Killed Dinosaurs Gave Birth to the Amazon Rainforest
It is known that the impact of an asteroid is the most probable cause for the extinction of the dinosaurs, but what happened to...
When the Amazon Burns, the Rest of the World Alarms!
The Amazon rainforest -which encompasses much of northwestern Brazil and extends to Colombia, Peru, and other countries in South America- is the largest tropical...
The Amazon Rainforest Is Still On Fire
For a month now, the Brazilian amazon rainforest has been burning. A surface about 8 times the size of Costa Rica has been...
June 5th: World Environment Day
World Environment Day was decreed by the United Nations on December 15th, 1972 and is commemorated on June 5th of each year. Its purpose...
