BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government reported on Thursday a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a ...
Across the Amazon, governments have tackled deforestation by creating protected areas, formalizing the rights of Indigenous People and by expanding control over how land is used. Most Amazon countries ...
Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 and 2020, according to a peer-reviewed study that separated the effects of ...
Homeland Security Today: Is Deforestation or NGO Arson to Blame for Amazon Wildfires?
Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...
Life in the Amazon region following total deforestation of its rainforest sounds pretty bleak: dry spells punctuated by bouts of extreme rain; strong winds that stunt any forest regrowth; and rising ...
New Scientist: Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts down atmospheric rivers
Deforestation has reduced rainfall over the Amazon, suggesting the rainforest could reach a catastrophic tipping point sooner than expected. Satellite observations and rain gauge measurements show ...
Phys.org: Deforestation leads to more extreme weather events in the Amazon region
The Oakland Press: Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illegal industrial dumping threatens residents of Belem, the host city of the Amazon Summit SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Deforestation in ...
MSN: Deforestation is drying out the Amazon rainforest faster than previously thought
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of triggered forest fire and deforestation for planting soya beans in the Amazon Rainforest, Vilhena - Rondonia state ...
Mongabay: A tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in Amazon
Brazil has managed to bring down spiraling rates of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest in the first half of this year, but the neighboring Cerrado savanna has seen a wave of environmental ...
A tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in Amazon
EurekAlert!: Deforestation in the Amazon may be decreasing the frequency of thunderstorms in South America
For the first time, researchers from Tel Aviv University determined that due to the ongoing deforestation in the Amazon basin in recent decades, the number of thunderstorms in the region has decreased ...
Deforestation in the Amazon may be decreasing the frequency of thunderstorms in South America
August was another month of relatively good news for the Amazon rainforest: The rate of deforestation has continued to decline significantly. Earlier this week, Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment ...
Eight Amazon basin nations announced an agreement Wednesday on preservation of the rainforest to “avoid the point of no return” but fell short of a shared goal on deforestation. The declaration comes ...
Phys.org: Deforestation is drying out the Amazon rainforest faster than previously thought
InSight Crime: GameChangers 2023: A Win Against Deforestation in the Amazon, For Now
Rates of deforestation decreased significantly during the last year in Colombia and Brazil, two Amazonian nations that have historically been among the 10 countries with the highest forest loss in the ...
Mongabay: Brazil plans new reserves to curb deforestation near contested Amazon roads
Unallocated public areas account for 28% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, and the destruction of these lands keeps rising even as rates plummet across other parts of the rainforest. To tackle ...
Phys.org: Deforestation reduces rainfall by 74% and increases temperatures by 16% in Amazon during dry season, study says
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is responsible for approximately 74.5% of the reduction in rainfall and 16.5% of the temperature increase in the biome during the dry season. For the first time, ...
Deforestation reduces rainfall by 74% and increases temperatures by 16% in Amazon during dry season, study says
Mongabay: Amazon deforestation may rise 30% as major traders exit historic soy pact