{"id":90,"date":"2019-08-25T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:17:52","slug":"the-worlds-lungs-are-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/25\/the-worlds-lungs-are-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The World&#8217;s Lungs are Burning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a 79% increase in fires in the Amazon rain forest from the same time period in 2018.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deforestation caused  the loss of 8.9 million acres of primary rain forest, an area equal to the size of Belgium.   If enough rain forest is lost and can&#8217;t be restored, it will become a savanna, loosing much of its carbon storing ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Amazon rain forest produces over 20% of the world&#8217;s oxygen supply.  It stores over 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Survival of the Amazon rain forest is key to reducing the global climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on this topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Washington Post<\/strong>  <a aria-label=\"ttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/world\/amp-stories\/amazon-fires-causes-rainforest-climate-change\/?noredirect=on (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/world\/amp-stories\/amazon-fires-causes-rainforest-climate-change\/?noredirect=on\">h<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/world\/amp-stories\/amazon-fires-causes-rainforest-climate-change\/?noredirect=on (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/world\/amp-stories\/amazon-fires-causes-rainforest-climate-change\/?noredirect=on\" target=\"_blank\">ttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/world\/amp-stories\/amazon-fires-causes-rainforest-climate-change\/?noredirect=on<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong>   <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2ZwdB9i (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2ZwdB9i\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2ZwdB9i<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Telegraph (UK) <\/strong>  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MSL4fr6mOh4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/MSL4fr6mOh4<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a 79% increase in fires in the Amazon rain forest from the same time period in 2018. Deforestation caused the loss of 8.9 million acres of primary rain forest, an area equal to the size of Belgium. If enough rain forest is lost and can&#8217;t be restored, it will become a savanna, loosing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/25\/the-worlds-lungs-are-burning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The World&#8217;s Lungs are Burning&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AmazonRainforestBurningAtRecordRates_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phepCL-1s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}