News earlier this year that Asian clothing factories supplying H&M and Zara were buying cotton linked to deforestation and ...

Firstly, the Amazon basin is typically receiving less rainfall ... Another factor in Amazon droughts is deforestation. Around one-fifth of the rainforest has been lost over the last 50 years ...

One of the main causes is deforestation. While trees are growing ... aircraft fitted with sensors over different parts of the Amazon basin. What the group found was startling: while most of ...

Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to ...

President Lula has pledged to end deforestation in the Amazon by 2030 The rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by nearly 50% in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to space ...

Authorities in Brazil trying to protect the Amazon from illegal deforestation have long relied on satellite images to alert them to areas that have been clear-cut or burned in a matter of days.

A more intact forest than regions like the Amazon, Central Africa’s Congo Basin saw deforestation increase by 5 per cent in 2021, according to a report released on Thursday by environmental group ...

For a month, Conversation Ecologist Dr. Lesley De Souza and Environmental Social Scientist Dr. Elliott Oakley worked in the ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant. YURIMAGUAS, Alto Amazonas, Peru — ...

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 ...

Beyond the balance-sheet, Anders Krogh, a specialist forest adviser at RFN, says these findings demonstrate the danger deforestation ... regulation in the Amazon basin. The effects are starkest ...