Deforestation rates across the Amazon have spiked this year, driving the devastating blazes. Our maps show the story.
In August, fires spread over large swaths of the Amazon Basin. ECOSTRESS captured the first image of the Amazon rainforest in Peru before the fires began, on August 7. It shows a surface temperature map revealing water-stressed and non-stressed forests (shown in brown and blue, respectively)...
Forest degradationREDDDeforestationFireTime seriesWe develop a new method to map understory forest fires in Amazonia. We used annual Landsat and MODIS data to follow canopy loss and recovery over time. The new method separated fire from deforestation, logging, and intact forests. MODIS and Landsat ...
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Amazon Forest Fires Visible From Space More Lauren Dauphin|NASA A satellite image of fires burning in the Brazilian states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso, on Aug. 13. Multiple blazes are burning in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, adding to a year of record fire numbers, accordi...
"If you lose the forest, this carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, goes into the atmosphere. It is very important to maintain the forest." But most governments across the region have failed to heed the IPCC's warnings and stop the destruction. Many South American leaders have ...
In contrast, only a few studies consider the downstream impacts on floodplains, which have been extensively studied over the last ten years in the case of the Uatumã River (see the map of Fig. 1) in the central Amazon region (Schöngart et al., 2021). In the following, we will...
Evidence of the fires also comes by way of a map created by the European Union’s satellite program, Copernicus, that shows smoke from the fires spreading all along Brazil to the east Atlantic coast. Smoke has covered nearly half of the country and has begun to spill into neighboring Peru,...
More context:On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron joined the international outcry over the wildfires in the Amazon rainforest on Thursday, calling them an “international crisis”. “Our house is on fire. Literally,” Macron tweeted. “The Amazon, the lungs of our planet which produces ...
The European Union’s satellite program, Copernicus, released a map showing smoke from the fires spreading all along Brazil to the east Atlantic coast. The smoke has covered nearly half of the country and is even spilling over into neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay. From the other side ...