The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 211, Issues 1-3National Geographic Society., 2007 - Geography |
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Page 49
... Amazon rain forest has been cut down - more than in all the previous 450 years since European colonization began . The percentage could well be far higher ; the figure fails to account for selective logging , which causes significant ...
... Amazon rain forest has been cut down - more than in all the previous 450 years since European colonization began . The percentage could well be far higher ; the figure fails to account for selective logging , which causes significant ...
Page 60
... Amazon . We were standing in a mock cemetery of 820 crosses that symbolized the human cost of the land wars in Pará , on the first anniversary of the murder of Dorothy Stang . " The first model was implanted during the military ...
... Amazon . We were standing in a mock cemetery of 820 crosses that symbolized the human cost of the land wars in Pará , on the first anniversary of the murder of Dorothy Stang . " The first model was implanted during the military ...
Page 69
... Amazon provides are of incalcula- ble worth : Water cycling ( the forest produces not only half its own rainfall but much of the rain south of the Amazon and east of the Andes ) , carbon sequestering ( by holding and absorbing carbon ...
... Amazon provides are of incalcula- ble worth : Water cycling ( the forest produces not only half its own rainfall but much of the rain south of the Amazon and east of the Andes ) , carbon sequestering ( by holding and absorbing carbon ...
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