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What are 3 interesting facts about the tropical rainforest?

  • Rainforests are a natural climate solution; they also cool and regulate local micro-climates which in turn stabilizes ocean currents, wind, and rainfall patterns.
  • Rainforest plants are used in some of the world’s most important, life-saving medicines. compounds in rainforest plants are already used to treat malaria, heart disease, bronchitis, hypertension, rheumatism, diabetes etc
  • Rainforests play an essential role in maintaining the Earth’s limited supply of fresh water. Rainforests add water to the atmosphere through the process of transpiration, by which plants release water from their leaves during photosynthesis.

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