carbon cycle

Carbon cycle

by: Valeria Bernal

Analyze: In many tropical rainforests, people clear land by cutting down trees and burning them. After a few years, the soil runs out of nutrients and cannot be farmed any longer. How does this practice of “slash and burn agriculture” affect Earth’s atmosphere?

There are birds that lost their houses because the humans are cutting the trees. Also, the air becomes contaminated because of the burning and this damages the atmosphere. With this pratice, the quantity of carbon is more and this makes the Earth hotter.

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