| The Rainforest |
| There will be no rainforest in about 15 years if something does not change soon. The rain forest is losing many extinct species that can live only in that habitat. Also the loss of the rainforest will cause a major climate change to the rest of the world. Bud Alcock, an environmental professor from Penn State Unveristy, did a mathematical model of the rainforest. He studied what effect human deforestation of the rainforest will cause. He estimates that in 15 years the rainforest will be at a state to where there is no way to reverse the damage. The rainforest is so big that it creates its own climate. The rain forest recycles the rain. The light reflection, cloud formation, rain fall, and temperature is affected by the forest. The rainforest depends on high levels of precipitation. A healthy forest uses a process called evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration is when a healthy forest holds the rain and returns it to atomsphere to be recycled. If nothing is done in 40 to 50 years the rain forest will be completely gone. |
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