Amazon, What If The Forest Was'nt There Anymore? Essential Oxygen #1
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Mar 21, 2008 |
 The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than 160 kilometres or one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.
The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
So if we fell all the trees in the Amazon basin, we'll have 20% less oxygen to breathe world wide.
I guess we might be abled to live with that. I guess people forget we have to breath...Labels: Oxygen |
posted by speedquill @ 12:24 PM  |
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