Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin, on August 27, 2019. - (Photo by Joao Laet / AFP)

The Deforestation of Tropical Rainforests and its Effects

Paul Siebert
May 10, 2022
In the past century, humans have been continuously destroying rainforests to satisfy their hunger for industrial and agricultural success; in short: money. Today, two thirds of all original tropical rainforest cover around the world is either gone or severely damaged. That has led to many scientists exclaiming that it is too late for us, that we have gone too far. But why even are rainforests so important for the planet and the species living on it, including us? And is it really too late for us to change and save the rainforests? 
(photo: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images)

The Amazon is Burning

Sim Saini
August 30, 2019

There have been more the 9,500 new fires spotted in The Amazon. The fires are burning through many states in Brazil which are inhabited with human life. Being the largest rainforest in the world fires...

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