河流流经我们(The rivers run through us)

在世界河流日，我们纪念被认为是所有河流中的女王的亚马逊河，它流经4000多英里，主要流经南美国家秘鲁和巴西。亚马逊河每秒向海洋排放5800万加仑淡水，足以填满83个奥运会规模的游泳池，远远超过世界上任何其他河流。它占流入世界海洋的所有淡水的20%。它也是世界上最大、最多样化的雨林——亚马逊雨林的重要心脏。它是世界上三分之一动物物种的家园，其树木和植物每年从大气中吸收数十亿吨的吸热二氧化碳，使其成为地球抵御气候变化的最佳屏障之一。
原文：
On World Rivers Day, we honour what may be thought of as the queen of them all – the Amazon, which flows more than 4,000 miles mostly through the South American countries of Peru and Brazil. The Amazon discharges a whopping 58 million gallons of freshwater into the ocean every second, enough to fill 83 Olympic-sized swimming pools, far more water than any other river in the world. It accounts for 20% of all freshwater that flows into the world’s seas and oceans. It’s also the vital heart of the largest and most diverse rainforest in the world – the Amazon RainForest. It is home to a third of the world’s animal species and its trees and plants pull billions of tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, making it one of the Earth’s best defenses against climate change.
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