CLIMATE CHANGE IN

THE AMAZON
LYRA C, 5TH PD. CHEM

is the world's largest tropical rainforest. Located in

South America, it spans 5.49 million km², and serves
The Amazon as a massive carbon sink. Unfortunately, in recent
rainforest years, deforestation has become an even greater
threat- at least 7,747 km² of forest have been
cleared in 2019, about 10x the size of New York City.

Carbon Sink
The Amazon absorbs well
over 544 billion kg of carbon
annually, about a quarter of
all forest-based carbon
dioxide reductions globally.

Forest Fires
In the last year, forest
fires have become far
more common- there
have been over 80,000
outbreaks in 2019, with
no end in sight. Many
can be attributed to land
clearing for farming and
agriculture,
exacerbated by Aquaculture
increasing temperatures Freshwater aquaculture in
due to atmospheric CO2 the Amazon river region has
and shifting local been recently embraced by
precipitation patterns the Peruvian government as
and ocean currents. an eco-friendly alternative to
cattle farming. While they
require a suitable body of
water to cultivate, fish have a
feed conversion ratio more
than four times that of cattle,
and do not necessitate
massive deforestation to
form pastures.

The Amazon will be

irrecoverably deforested
within

20 yrs
 Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/21/amazonian-
rainforest-is-ablaze-turning-day-into-night-brazils-capital-city/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/09/news-
peru-amazon-forest-climate-change/
http://www.fao.org/fishery/countrysector/naso_peru/en
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/458631468152376668/pdf
/831770WP0P11260ES003000Fish0to02030.pdf
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/amazon-
fires-cause-deforestation-graphic-map/
https://partner.sciencenorway.no/agriculture--fisheries-fish-farming-
forskningno/fish-farming-in-the-amazon/1388652
https://www.aquaculturealliance.org/what-we-do/why-it-matters/
https://cals.ncsu.edu/news/peru-partnership-focuses-on-aquaculture-
fisheries/
https://e360.yale.edu/features/will-deforestation-and-warming-push-
the-amazon-to-a-tipping-point
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