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  2. Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surge for ... - AOL

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    A prolonged drought across much of South America, linked to climate change, means the fires in Brazil's Amazon have burned more intensely this year and at times smoke has covered more than half of ...

  3. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

  4. Amazon biome - Wikipedia

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    In Brazil the biome covers more than 4,100,000 square kilometres (1,600,000 sq mi) and covers all or parts of the states of Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins and Mato Grosso. [7] The Amazon biome covers 49.29% of Brazil. [8] 16% of the biome is in Peru. As of 2015 about 23.4% of Peru's Amazon biome was ...

  5. Amazon River - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon basin, the largest in the world, covers about 40% of South America, an area of approximately 7,050,000 km 2 (2,720,000 sq mi). It drains from west to east, from Iquitos in Peru, across Brazil to the Atlantic. It gathers its waters from 5 degrees north latitude to 20 degrees south latitude.

  6. Depth of major Amazon tributary in Brazil drops to record low ...

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    MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) - The Solimoes, one of the two largest tributaries of the Amazon River in Brazil, fell to its lowest level ever on Monday in the worst drought on record in the Amazon ...

  7. Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge ...

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    BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Leaders from South American nations that are home to the Amazon challenged the developed world on Tuesday to do more to help stop massive destruction of the world’s ...

  8. Amazon basin - Wikipedia

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    Amazon basin. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname ...

  9. Brazil's Lula: Amazon countries summit to build common ... - AOL

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    Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday said that next week's summit of Amazon region nations will seek to draw up a common policy for the first time to protect the rainforest. The ...

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