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given that the Sahara is only a couple thousand years old does that mean the amazon is just as young?
by arcadeparade 6y ago
given that the Sahara is only a couple thousand years old does that mean the amazon is just as young?
- pinkfoot 6y agoVery good question.
- macintux 6y agoAn interesting article on how people shaped the Amazon. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-clear-that-ancient-humans-helped-enrich-the-amazon/518439/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-...
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThe Amazon is much younger; much of what is jungle today wasn't before the Columbian Exchange. There is a theory that American reforestation was responsible for the Little Ice Age.