Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024
2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...
South America’s most dangerous gang invades the Amazon forest
The PCC is taking over illegal gold mining in the Amazon and corrupting Indigenous cultures in a spiral of violence in some ...
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South America’s most dangerous gang invades the Amazon forest
The practice accounts for only a fraction of Amazon deforestation ... Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), National Institute for Space Research’s PRODES, Cartografias ...
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Drought, fire, deforestation ravaged Amazon rainforest in 2024
And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...
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Fires, deforestation and drought hammered the Amazon in 2024
And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to ...