This pioneering analysis unveils how specific agricultural commodities, from cattle ranching to crops, are driving forest loss at subnational levels throughout the Amazon region. This report combines ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

Any given point in the Amazon is scanned by one of the satellites every five to eight days. The images are initially analyzed automatically using Google Earth Engine, but they are all validated by ...

Brazil's Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (Deter), of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), reported Thursday that deforestation in the Amazon in the first semester of 2023 had ...

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 ...

found that accountability for illegal deforestation in the Amazon has increased. However, only 5 percent of the cases led to compensation. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the fines ...

Scientists say the Amazon has suffered losses at an accelerated ... country's national space institute of lying about the scale of deforestation in the Amazon. He said the institute was smearing ...

Those fires then contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some blazes were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

impact investors and financial institutions to promote a nature-based economy in the Amazon biome, which is under grave threat from deforestation for timber and illegal mining. According to the ...

Though the Amazon rainforest proved a useful screen ... Should the recent rates of deforestation continue, experts warn, the implications will prove devastating for us all. Marisela Silva Parra ...