The Amazon rainforest provides critical baseline data for understanding the effects of human activities on the atmosphere. Its relatively unpolluted air serves as an effective proxy for preindustrial conditions. However, the presence of human settlements in the Amazon poses challenges for researchers.
Ten years later, data gathered in Brazil have proven highly influential across atmospheric science : Go Amazon Looking out over the Amazon rainforest can seem like viewing a vast sea of trees. Its size, areas of relative isolation, and biodiversity make it a unique environment and natural laboratory. It is the closest that modern observers of the atmosphere can get to measuring preindustrial conditions over land.
For researchers trying to understand how human activities have affected the atmosphere, the Amazon’s relatively unpolluted air can provide critical baseline data. Centuries of industrialization have created a human-influenced background across most of the world. But areas of the Amazon remain sufficiently isolated from polluting activities to serve as effective proxies for preindustrial conditions. However, the Amazon is not totally isolated. More than just forest, it contains numerous human settlements, such as the city of Manau
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