Agroforestry offers market-based way to boost Amazon rains & farmer incomes (analysis)

Mongabay
Feb 25, 2026, 2:24 pm397 ptsTop
The Amazon Rainforest generates its own weather. Each day, the forest’s 390 billion trees release approximately 20 billion metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, creating what Brazilian scientists call rios voadores — flying rivers. These aerial currents of moisture flow…

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