Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and ...
Authorities are also investigating the colonies since some of the land grab coincides with Indigenous communities. Satellite ...
The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to ...
South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.
These results are being celebrated as a major win for conservationists and climate advocates. The Brazilian government, led ...
For the past two years, the Amazon experienced consecutive extreme droughts, with 2024 being exceptionally severe, leaving ...
At its lowest level in the region for the past nine years in km2 *measured from the month of August to July in the year ...
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 eight ...