Saving Earth

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google on Thursday unveiled a tool that lets scientists and defenders of the environment use the Internet to keep an eye on what is left of the Earth’s forests.
“We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly-disappearing forests,” Rebecca Moore and Amy Luers of the US Internet [...]

Pinning down exact numbers is nearly impossible, but most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily, and significantly degrading another 80,000 acres every day on top of that. Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day—or some 50,000 species a year—as the forests fall.

According to researchers, tropical rainforests are incredibly rich ecosystems that play a key role in the basic functioning of the planet. They help maintain the climate by regulating atmospheric gases and stabilizing rainfall, and provide many other important ecological functions.

The Amazon Rainforest area occupies over 7.5 million square kilometers, about 40 percent of South America’s territory.
A region of superlatives, the Amazon, the world’s largest intact rainforest,spans nine South American countries – Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and French Guyana (part of France). Thetotal forest area of 6.7 million km2 is nearly [...]

Brilliant comic from Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes comic…One of my favorites.

 
Almost  every  day  there  are  new  stories  about measures that have been taken to protect environment.Areas of land are set aside for wildlife. New forests are planted. Steps are taken to reduce the pollution of air and water.This section is dedicated to all the efforts taking place to save our Planet
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