Amazon fires could have long-lasting and devastating impacts

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical forest on Earth and is connected to the longest river in the world, the Amazon River. Older figures claimed the Nile was longer and some geographers still dispute which river is truly longest.  Newer research has found the Amazon to be 4,225 miles long, outstretching even the Nile, according to National Geographic. The Amazon is undisputedly the largest river in the world by volume, containing 20% of the earth’s fresh water. According to WWF, the Amazon River accounts for …