Following the accelerating deforestation in the Amazon, despite debt relief systems and eco-tourism, the earth’s sky rivers have been disrupted. The hydrological system running from theAmazon all the way to sub Saharan Africa has been having significant predicted impacts on soil-moisture contents around South America and West Africa. Sky rivers are formed when concentrated water vapour flows along paths on the contacting surfaces like river channels on the earth surface characterised by precipitation processes. They continue to exist due to partial differential water contents of the atmosphere.
Owing to the decreased evapotranspiration rates in the Amazon owing to deforestation, the localised evapotranspiration cycle caused overheating of local trees leading to lower fruit bearings and lack of photosynthesis competition resulting in shorter trees. Furthermore, sky river processes have been affected leading to lower precipitation rates across South America to Africa, potentially threatening our green world. Although there have been minimal studies done on this phenomenon, there have been predictions based on global deforestation that the Nile could become drier, affecting the millions of people of riverine population from South Sudan to Egypt. The Asian
monsoon could hobble, fields from Argentine to the Midwestern US could be desiccated. With the starving of rivers and precipitation patterns altering, our trees will gradually become scarcer – destroying our green world and our human world.
So next time you walk around your local park, consider where the water droplets that feed your trees have come from, and how deforestation threatens the most fundamental life forms to our food chain. Please donate to cool earth to assist this problem.
Lilly Makkos
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