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April 09, 2004
Oxygen Crisis Alert
The Amazon, an area of continuous tropical forest that is larger than Western Europe, has been described as the "lungs of the world" because of its vast capacity to produce oxygen. - Recent AP Article
Of course, oxygen makes up about 21% or 210,000 ppm of the atmosphere and a very tiny percentage of the earth's total atmospheric oxygen is produced each year by photosynthesis, i.e. 36.5 ppm is only 0.017% of total atmospheric oxygen.
Not that I'm for the destruction of the rainforests ...
Posted by Blogorithm at April 9, 2004 10:36 PM
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