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Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change

Join Gisele Bundchen when she meets with one of Brazil’s top climate scientists to discuss the complexity of the Amazon rainforest and its connection to Earth’s atmosphere.

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High on a tower overlooking the lush Amazon canopy, Gisele Bundchen and Brazilian climate scientist Antonio Nobre talk about the importance of the rain forest and the impact of cutting down its trees.

As Nobre explains, the rainforest is not only home to an incredible diversity of species, it also has a critical cooling effect on the planet because its trees channel heat high into the atmosphere. In addition, forests absorb and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere—CO2 that is released back into the atmosphere when trees are cut and burned.

Nobre warns that if deforestation continues at current levels, we are headed for disaster. The Amazon region could become drier and drier, unable to support healthy habitats or croplands.

Find more of this story in the “Fueling the Fire” episode of the National Geographic Channel’s Years of Living Dangerously series.

The Amazon rain forest absorbs one-fourth of the CO2 absorbed by all the land on Earth. The amount absorbed today, however, is 30% less than it was in the 1990s because of deforestation. A major motive for deforestation is cattle ranching. China, the United States, and other countries have created a consumer demand for beef, so clearing land for cattle ranching can be profitable—even if it’s illegal. The demand for pastureland, as well as cropland for food such as soybeans, makes it difficult to protect forest resources.

Many countries are making progress in the effort to stop deforestation. Countries in South America and Southeast Asia, as well as China, have taken steps that have helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the destruction of forests by one-fourth over the past 15 years.

Brazil continues to make impressive strides in reducing its impact on climate change. In the past two decades, its CO2 emissions have dropped more than any other country. Destruction of the rain forest in Brazil has decreased from about 19,943 square kilometers (7,700 square miles) per year in the late 1990s to about 5,180 square kilometers (2,000 square miles) per year now. Moving forward, the major challenge will be fighting illegal deforestation.

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Use These Engaging Amazon Activities to Deepen Student Learning

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Estimated to be twice the size of India and contain 10 percent of the world’s known species, the Amazon rainforest is a critically important ecosystem — but not just to the plants and animals that call it home. It is also essential to the health of people locally and globally and the planet as a whole. The reasons for this include the rainforest’s ability to store carbon and produce oxygen and the potential of its life-forms to contribute to medical science.

The importance of this threatened ecosystem to the health of our planet is one of the reasons the National Geographic Society focused a fantastic new set of resources on the Amazon. The curated collection, featuring activities, articles, and other engaging resources, is free and available to integrate into your Earth Month instruction!

So, if you’re interested in supporting the inquisitive, budding Explorers in your own classroom, keep reading as I share some highlights and ideas from this awesome collection.

Highlighting Human Impact

The delicate balance between the needs of the human world and those of the natural world is an important concept in environmental science, because decisions that prioritize one can come at the expense of the other. Getting students to think about these trade-offs is a great way to promote critical thinking, and one of the resources in the Amazon collection serves as a great catalyst for just this kind of work.

The lesson “ Making a Decision about Building a Road in the Amazon ” gives students the opportunity to consider the impact of road construction on not just the rainforest but also the Indigenous people who live there. Completing the activities in the lesson provides a blueprint for how decisions like these can be made responsibly, with input from multiple stakeholders. This experience can help lay the groundwork for discussions or larger projects focused on environmental issues in your students’ communities, such as housing development or water rationing. In the process, you will help make connections between the local and the global.

Exploring Through Maps

Maps are extremely useful tools that help us navigate more than just roads and landscapes. We can use them also to navigate data and information, an important skill for any developing geographer.

A resource that illustrates this fact in an engaging and interactive way is the “ Biodiversity of the Amazon ” map, which uses multiple layers and interactive features to help users learn more about the Amazon and the wide array of life it contains. The map could serve as the entry activity for inquiry-based lessons on the many species that live in the forest or to get students started on researching specific species of plants or animals that are endemic to the forest.   

Connecting Students to Experts

Learning becomes more meaningful when connected to the real world in a way the student understands. Being able to tell a student “what you’re learning is what this person does for their job” helps frame classroom learning in a way that makes it matter more to the student. It is also important, when discussing environmental issues and problems, to remind our students that there are people working on solutions — and they can as well.

The “ Ask An Amazon Expert ” resource makes these kinds of authentic connections. Watching or reading the interview with National Geographic Explorer Juliana Machado Ferreira helps students learn that even the most challenging problems can be addressed. The resource could also inspire additional classroom activities: students might brainstorm ways of taking action or informing others about what they have learned; they could develop their persuasive writing skills or oral communication skills through advocacy for the animals they have learned about; or they could look at what animals outside the Amazon have been victims of poaching.

The ideas I have described can function as stand-alone lessons or as part of larger inquiry-focused projects. If you’re interested in integrating resources like these into project-based learning opportunities for your students but aren’t sure how to get started, check out this new book I co-wrote with my friend Jorge Valenzuela about teaching environmental science through high-quality project-based learning.

Explore the National Geographic Society’s curated collection of educational resources on the Amazon rainforest here , and see our Resource Library for nearly 5,000 additional free resources, including articles, videos, activities, maps, and lesson plans.

James Fester is a consultant and author passionate about project-based learning (PBL) and experiential learning. His educational experience includes classroom teaching, instructional coaching, technology integration, and, most recently, serving as a member of the PBLWorks National Faculty. In addition to his consulting work, James is a National Park Service volunteer who collaborates on educational programs for parks across the country. His writing has been featured by National Geographic, TED-Ed, KQED, and in a recent book on PBL and environmental science published by ISTE . He currently resides in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Learn more about his work or how to work with him on his website !

Featured image, marking Earth Day 2022, by Aaron Pomerantz, National Geographic

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• A tour through one of the most beautiful and exciting places in the world!
• A tropical rainforest is a forest that has many trees, a very warm climate and plenty of different wild life!
• Rainforests can be found in many places on the globe, most located near the equator. The largest rainforest of them all is the Amazon Rainforest!
• The Amazon Rainforest is almost always raining and can receive up to 80 inches of rainfall a year!
• The weather is very humid with temperatures resting between 75 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. (Summer weather)
• Those that live in the rainforest depend on the environment to survive. They use nature to help with food, shelter and medicines.
• Kids in the rainforest have different hobbies than you. The kids play outside in the forest and the rivers and streams. They dont watch TV or play video games, but do many of the same things you do. The kids help their families with chores and go to school.
• At an early age, kids learn how to fish, hunt and collect materials and food that are found in the forest.
• The rainforest has many trees. Trees help produce oxygen to the rest of the world. Humans and animals need oxygen to survive. Since there are so many trees in the rainforest, this environment is very important to life.
• The trees provide shelter to a majority of the animals living in the rainforest. Some of these animals are endangered and are close to becoming extinct.
• Sections of the rainforest are disappearing everyday. This is called deforestation. Humans are cutting down areas for the use of lumber, clearing land for new farms or for road construction.
• Sadly, a part of the rainforest the size of New Jersey is cut down each day!
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