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Amazon Saves us All

People take a lot from the forest: materials for construction, food, medicine, raw materials for the paper industry. Wood, pine needles and tree bark are used as raw materials for many chemical industries. About half of the timber harvested goes to fuel needs, and a third goes to construction. A quarter of all medications used […]

Impact of deforestation on the global ecology and measures to save them

A forest is not just a collection of trees, but a complex ecosystem that unites plants, animals, fungi, microorganisms and affects the climate, the state of drinking water, and the purity of the air. Thousands of years ago, a huge part of the Earth’s surface was covered with forests. They spread to North America and […]