Amazon Rainforest: The Lungs of Our Planet
The Amazon rainforest, 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. The majority of the forest, 60%, is in Brazil, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. The rainforest likely formed during the Eocene era (from 56 million years to 33.9 million years ago). It appeared following a global […]
