about three football fields are gone every second, you can do the maths.
lots
Much of the forest was cleared for farmland.
500
Much of the agricultural land now needs to be cleared of explosives.
have no idea
Getting to the Amazon by land is more difficult. The Amazon is much longer than the Mississippi. The Mississippi has always been more of a major highway.
Nearly 17% of the amazon rain forest has been exploited for human settlements. it was predicted long before that if the forest is cleared the land wont support cropping for a longer period of time and soon it wood be deserted . But till now not a sign of desertification is seen in those areas.
1.5 acres.
The rainforest in Peru is the Amazon. The Peruvian Amazon comprises 60% of the country and is marked by a large degree of biodiversity.
its containment and capture of carbon dioxide.
Thank god, about 4,017,600.
700 billion liters
20%