# Rainforests & Global Climate

Understand the connection between rainforests and global climate — rainforests absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen through photosynthesis, store enormous amounts of carbon in their biomass, and generate rainfall through transpiration; when forests are burned or cleared, stored carbon is released as CO₂, accelerating climate change and disrupting regional rainfall patterns

Builds on: Deforestation Causes & Scale (hard, https://ai.page/c/deforestation-causes-and-scale/en.md), Climate Change Basics (soft, https://ai.page/c/climate-change-basics/en.md), Rainforest Water Cycle (hard, https://ai.page/c/rainforest-water-cycle/en.md)

Concept id: rainforests-and-global-climate. Subject: science. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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