Amazon, Brazil

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year
According to official monitoring, Amazon rainforest loss in Brazil dropped by one-third compared to the previous year, according to official monitoring.
Brazil’s president promised to protect the Amazon. This year, deforestation fell 31%.
After years of agribusiness expansion under former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right government, the Amazon’s deforestation rate plummeted this year. Current President Lula da Silva has prioritized environmental protections.
Amazon deforestation drops by 31% compared to last year
The Amazon, an area twice the size of India, holds the world’s largest rainforest, about two-thirds of it within Brazil. It stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that
Brazil's Amazon posts lowest deforestation in nine years: govt
The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government reported Wednesday, in line with its promise to combat
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest falls to lowest since 2015
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon fell 30.6% in the 12 months through July compared to the same period a year prior, according to government data released on Wednesday — the smallest area destroyed in the world’s largest rainforest in nine years.
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Brazilian government scrambles as wildfires devastate world's largest rainforest — here's what's happening
Brazil's worst drought on record is exacerbating a dire wildfire situation in the Amazon rainforest. The country's government enlisted the help of 3,000 firefighters to put out the blazes at one ...
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The Amazon rainforest fires and Hong Kong: what's our impact and what can we do?
Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although ...
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'I haven't seen a blue sky in two months as fire the size of Denmark devours the forest'
An archaeologist working in South America says he has not seen a blue sky for months - because vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest have been on fire since August. Researchers have, in the past ...
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Amazon deforestation in Brazil plunges 31% to lowest level in 9 years
However, many fire-affected areas are registered as degraded in INPE’s data, which often precedes outright deforestation.
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Brazil stems tide of deforestation in the Amazon as tree loss hits 9-year low
The Brazilian government said Thursday that forest loss in its Amazon region fell more than 30 percent compared to the year ...
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Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest
See All Key Ideas The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the number of fires burning in Earth’s largest rainforest, according to ...
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Deforestation Could Turn The Amazon Rainforest Into A Permanent Source Of Carbon
A report suggests that further degradation of the Amazon could turn one of the world’s most important carbon sinks into a ...
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3 WAYS YOU CAN HELP THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse ... are finding it increasingly tough to cope with the pressures of land grabbing, fires, deforestation, ...
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Record deforestation in the Amazon rainforest confirms official Brazilian data
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over ... Risks to the forest drew global concern in August when fires raged through the Amazon, drawing sharp criticism from ...
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Communities in the Amazon struggle amid the second year of a devastating drought
In the Amazon Rainforest, it's been the driest year in more than a century. Throughout South America, countries are grappling with less water, battling record wildfires and rationing energy as ...