Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil soared 85% in 2019, compared with the previous year, official data showed Tuesday. The 9,166 square kilometers cleared was the highest ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear ...
If these trends continue unchecked, they could disrupt continental rainfall patterns and trigger a sharp decline in species that depend on the rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon has been ...
The Amazon rainforest was hit with a historic drought ... Unlike other major studies, which mostly looked at deforestation, researchers zeroed in on the "cumulative effects of a range of threats ...
28% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon occurred in unallocated public lands. Even in 2023, whendeforestation rates plummeted by half across the rainforest, these areas saw an increase of ...
In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo. Fires are traditionally ...