The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself

Source: spacedaily.com · Published: 2026-08-01

<a href="https://spacedaily.com/k-the-trees-of-the-amazon-pump-such-staggering-amounts-of-moisture-into-the-air-that-they-create-invisible-rivers-in-the-sky-and-those-rivers-travel-thousands-of-kilometres-to-water-farmland-in-countr/" title="The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself" rel="nofollow"><img width="1600" height="840" src="https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tr-2026-07-31T135258.453.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 20px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tr-2026-07-31T135258.453.png 1600w, https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tr-2026-07-31T135258.453-300x158.png 300w, https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tr-2026-07-31T135258.453-1024x538.png 1024w, https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tr-2026-07-31T135258.453-768x403.png 768w, https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tr-2026-07-31T135258.453-1536x806.png 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></a><p>Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does over the course of a day. Water rises out of the soil through the roots, moves up the trunk through millions of narrow tissue channels, spreads out through the branches, and exits through microscopic pores on the [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://spacedaily.com/k-the-trees-of-the-amazon-pump-such-staggering-amounts-of-moisture-into-the-air-that-they-create-invisible-rivers-in-the-sky-and-those-rivers-travel-thousands-of-kilometres-to-water-farmland-in-countr/">The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://spacedaily.com">Space Daily</a>.</p>