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The Importance of Flying Rivers for the Survival of the Amazon Rainforest
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Flying rivers, or rain clouds that recycle the forest's own moisture, generate as much as 45% of the Amazon rainforest's total precipitation. If deforestation reaches 20 to 25% of the original area, the flying rivers will weaken enough that a rainforest simply will not be able to survive in most of the Amazon basin.

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