By Austin Williams Published March 7, 2022 8:33pm EST News FOX TV Digital Teamarticle Aerial view showing a deforested area of Amazonia rainforest in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 15, 2021. Nearly 80% of the Amazon rainforest has exhibited signs of loss since the early...
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 lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state ...
How big is the Brazilian deforestation issue? In 2023, Brazil registered by far the largest area of primary forest loss in the world, amounting to more than one million hectares. This was roughly the same area as the remaining top nine countries combined. As the country with the second-large...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed drought that in turn...
Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil, on August 15, 2020. Carl De Souza | AFP | Getty Images Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has reached a 15-year high, data from the country's space agency has ...
One way of helping the Amazon rainforest is to reduce your consumption of some of the products that are driving the deforestation. It’s estimated that around eighty percent of deforestation in the Amazon is driven by cattle ranchers, who in turn are responding to the global desire for cheap...
The deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has accelerated to the highest rate in more than a decade, the country's space agency said Monday. New data from INPE, the National Institute for Space Research, shows a significant rise in deforestation over the last year, which many attribute...
Of all the jungles that we can find on the planet, the Amazon is the most important. Join me to know these interesting Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Facts
Free Essay: Introduction The Amazon Rainforest is located in nine different countries in South America (Fig. 1a) and contains over half of the world’s...
By Austin Williams Published March 7, 2022 5:33pm PST News FOX TV Digital Teamarticle Aerial view showing a deforested area of Amazonia rainforest in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 15, 2021. Nearly 80% of the Amazon rainforest has exhibited signs of loss since the early...