The forests of the Amazon, which supply 20 percent of the world's oxygen, will disappear in 43 years

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The forests of the Amazon, considered to be the largest in the world and the lungs for the earth, will be cleared in the next 43 years. The Amazon is the world's largest rain forest and is thought to supply 20 percent of the world's oxygen, hence the name Earth Lung.

At 2.1 million square miles, the forest stretches as far as Brazil in South America. It is said that if it were a country, it would be the ninth largest country in the world. However, scientists say that there will be a time when there will be no forest and only plains will be visible. The greenery here will disappear.

University of Florida researcher Robert Walker predicts that by 2064, the Amazon's forests will be extinct. Frequent forest fires, droughts, and indiscriminate felling of trees will be responsible for this.

The condition of the Amazon has worsened. In 2020, Brazil's Amazon forests were cut down the most in a decade. In 2020, it destroyed 1,200 square kilometers of forest in Brazil.

An estimated 11 percent of the Amazon is deforested and another 17 percent is undergoing this process. Research has shown that cutting down trees in this way could change the ecology of the forest.

Climate change, on the other hand, is also playing a big part. Some parts of the western Amazon have been receiving as much as seven inches of rain each year since 1982. It takes four years for a forest to recover from a drought.