How are people impacting on Tropical Rainforests??
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People are not understanding the importance of the tropical forests which helps for good rain fall.Instead of saving them they are destroying.It is so shameful.
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, agricultural growth in the region was slow compared to the rates achieved in the past thirty years. Agricultural development in the recent past has been characterized by an extraordinary diversity both within and between countries. Many largely traditional farming systems that were sustainable with a low density of population are becoming increasingly strained by, and vulnerable to, the pressure of rising population. Spectacular environmental damage exemplifies the consequences of this pressure as land-hungry cultivators push into the tropical forests and up the hillsides. A growing prosperity among some groups contrasts with the deepening poverty among others less fortunate.
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Tropical rainforests are found in a belt around the equator of the Earth. There are tropical rainforests across South America, Central America, Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia (and nearby islands). \n\nTemperate rainforests are found along the Pacific coast of the USA and Canada (from northern California to Alaska), in New Zealand, Tasmania, Chile, Ireland, Scotland and Norway. They are less abundant than tropical rainforests.
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Which Tropical Rainforest?  There is more than 1 you know.
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They live in tropical rainforests between elevations of 100-2300 feet.
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Despite their uniqueness and extraordinary value, tropical rain forests are being destroyed and badly degraded at an unsustainable rate. Some scientists estimate that in the early 1990s tropical forests were being destroyed at a rate of approximately 28 hectares (70 acres) a minute, or about 14 million hectares (35 million acres) each year—an area about the size of the state of Wisconsin. This figure marked a decrease since the 1980s, when approximately 16 million hectares (40 million acres) were destroyed each year, largely due to a reported decline of deforestation in the Amazon River basin in the early 1990s. However, satellite images indicate that rates may have rebounded in the late 1990s as burning in the Amazon increased again. Over the past three decades alone, about 5 million sq km (about 2 million sq mi)—or 20 percent of the world’s tropical forests—have been cleared. During this time, deforestation in tropical Asia reached almost 30 percent. High rates of deforestation are inevitably followed by alarming rates of plant and animal extinction because many rain forest species cannot survive outside their pristine rain forest habitat. Some scientists estimate that dozens of rain forest species are becoming extinct every day.
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Effects of deforestation.\n\nthis can be a local problem with global consequences.\n\ncan be biology and chemsitry (maybe physics as well, heat flows etc.)
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A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. Tropical rainforests arise due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone, but temperate rainforests also exist. As well as prodigious rainfall, many rainforests are characterized by a high number of resident species and tremendous biodiversity.
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have you done the Rainforest  thing? Where you get ina circle and start making soft noises (rubbing hands together, then snapping fingers) building up to rain patter (soft clapping) and thunder (stomping etc.) and then having the storm move on by going back down with the noises in the reverse order....this should be on the net somewhere or in Project WILD...
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Uh...people already live in the rain forest.  Have forever and a day.  You have to be a hunter gatherer type.  You would spend a decent amount of time just acquiring food, water and shelter.  Unless you start cutting them down and putting in farmland.
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lol \n\nu would have to figure out, at least, how much CO2 a "common" rainforest tree can remove as they would remove the most CO2 not saying that other foliage would be insignificant. then figure out spacing between those trees. i think from that point you can figure out just how many square meters of rainforest it would take to remove a ton of CO2. \n\nthen, figure out a percent at which the surrounding foliage would assist in the removal of CO2. shrink the total area by that percent to get a more realistic size.
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The Amazon rain forest.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_rainforest
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Be careful.\n\nThat environment can be dangerous.
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rain and heat from being close to the equator and having a varied terrain.
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It depends on the place of the planet where the tropical rain forest is located.  I am from Tortuguero, Costa Rica, and the biggest plants on that tropical rain forest are Almendros, Caobas and Cedros beside a lot of differents ones that nobody knows the names.  In English?? I dont know...
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Here's a better answer than the one provided above, and a site that will provide the answer(s) you are looking for.\n\nHumans are using up natural resources at a great rate and at a great cost to the health of the natural environment and life on Earth.\n\nIt is not the natural resources by themselves that harm the Earth's environment -  it is what humans do with the natural resources that cause the problems to the environment and to the health of living things, including other human beings.\n\nThe burning of fossil fuels in factories to make products and power, and the fuels used by trucks, automobiles and jet planes have caused acid rain and a great increase in carbon dioxide and pollution in the atmosphere.   And forests have been destroyed which used to absorb carbon dioxide.  Carbon dioxide traps heat in our lower atmosphere.\n\nScientists believe that human activities such as these have led to global warming.