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Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is the world's greatest natural resource. The most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet, yet still it is being destroyed just like other rainforests around the world. The problem and the solution to rainforest destruction are both economic. Rainforests are being destroyed worldwide for the profits they yield - mostly harvesting unsustainable resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for subsistence cropping by rainforest inhabitants. There are two types of rainforests: tropical and temperate. Tropical and temperate rainforests share certain characteristics. For example, most trees flare at the base. Vegetation is dense, tall and very green. Both types of rainforests are rich in plant and animal species, although the diversity is greater in the tropical rainforest. Both tropical and temperate rainforests are very lush and wet. The tropical rainforest has downpours at the rate of two inches an hour...

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