A new study found that deforestation in the Amazon doesn’t just raise temperatures in the areas where the deforestation took place but rather throughout the entire region. Researchers analyzed ...

Eight South American countries failed to agree on a common goal to save the critically vulnerable Amazon from deforestation following a landmark summit in Brazil Tuesday, a concerning outcome as ...

Data from 92 first-cut roads in the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and New Guinea provided insight into the scale of human impacts caused by secondary road networks.

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Amazon accounts for 20% of land photosynthesis which can take away carbon dioxide molecules from the air. ... Amazon deforestation impact on world climate.

More information: Eduardo A. Haddad et al, Economic drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, Nature Sustainability (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01387-7 Provided by FAPESP ...

Deforestation in Brazil's vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area destroyed reached 8,174 square kilometers (3,156 square miles).

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva, preliminary government data showed on Wednesday, amid a ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.. In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest ...