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The Amazon rainforest has many problems. I will be telling you about three of them. they are that Sao Paulo is running out of water as the rain-making Amazon vanishes, the campaign to keep the oil in the ground in the Amazon, and lastly, about how Amazon Watch is standing with the Indigenous People, and defending the Rainforest...

São Paulo, a Brazilian city of 20 million people, is going through its worst drought in at least 80 years, with reservoirs that supply the city that have dried up after an unusually dry year. One of the causes of this problem could be the growing deforested areas in the Amazon region. "Humidity that comes from the Amazon in the form of vapor clouds has dropped dramatically, contributing to this disastrous situation we are living today," said Antonio Nobre, a leading …show more content…

The changes, he said, are "all because of deforestation". Scientists and meteorologists believe the lack of rain that has dried up key reservoirs in São Paulo and neighboring areas in southeastern Brazil is not just the result of an oddity in weather patterns. Instead, global warming and the deforestation of the Amazon are changing the climate in the region by reducing the release of billions of liters of water by rainforest trees, they say. São Paulo residents should brace for a disaster if the drought continues. People were warned last week that São Paulo only has about two weeks of drinking water supplies left.
And as for the campaign to keep the oil in the ground in the Amazon, well, that can’t be going too great. Life on Earth would not be possible without the oxygen and fresh water that is generated from places like the amazon rainforest. But, the Amazon is being severely destroyed by the oil-hungry oil industry for economic gain, threatening the people, plants, and animals living in the rainforest. “Ecuador is not going to get out of poverty just because they come and drill for oil in the Amazon… Ecuador

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