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IMPLEMENTATION : Due to the increase in the global water acidification , the ‘ Pacific Partnership on Ocean Acidification ’ was held in 2017 to save the affected marine organism like pteropods and the coral reefs . Pacific island communities and ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of ocean acidification and ocean warming . The Partnership builds on the outcomes of the International Workshop on Ocean Acidification : State-of-the- Science Considerations for Small Island Developing States that was co-hosted by New Zealand and the United States , in partnership with SPREP , as an official side-event at the 3rd UN SIDS Conference in 2014 .
Nirvik Dotel Environmental Science
Batch 2017
Amazon Rainforest Fires : An Environmental Catastrophe
Amazon rainforest accounts for about 20 % of oxygen on the earth ’ s atmosphere and thus is also referred to as the planet ’ s lungs . Amazon , an ecosystem on which the entire world depends on , was ripped by the recordbreaking fires . Since the start of 2019 , Brazil ’ s National Institute for Space Research reported 75,000 fires in the country with more than half of it was seen in the Amazon region . More than one and a half fields of the Amazon rainforest are being destroyed every minute of every day as stated by the research institute . Similarly , as compared to the last year , an 80 % increase in deforestation occurred in 2019 . The unprecedented fire raged throughout Brazil that intensified in August .
Scientists and environmentalists have said that the reason Amazon was on fire was mostly due to the farmers who had deliberately started blazes in their efforts to clear land for crops and livestock . It is estimated that humans start 99 % of all the fires in the Amazon rainforest either on purpose or by accidents . The burning of the forest wasn ’ t a natural disaster , it was something the humans were more likely responsible for . According to the senior scientist at Brazil ’ s National Institute for Space Research , Alberto Setzer , people often set the forest to clear land for agriculture . Satellites that detect heat signatures issued over 136,000 fire alerts in Brazil in 2019 , with more than 109,000 of them between August 13 and 20 , 2019 .
The Amazon rainforest fire alarmed the entire world because of the way the fire was skyrocketing . Every living being on the planet is benefitted from the Amazon . It plays an important role in sucking out the planetwarming greenhouse gases from the atmosphere . Climate change will be a headache without the good health of the Amazon rainforest . According to WWF , the Amazon contains about 90 to 140 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide . It also indicates that it is a giant carbon sink . So the release of this amount of carbon
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