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 ...

Circular Bioeconomy Alliance launched by King Charles to help address deforestation Agroforestry ... Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), said: “We’re looking at ...

Experts warn that these policies could undermine decades of progress. Government accused of 'major setback' as new report ...

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.

French banking groups Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and BPCE have been discreetly investing in the oil and gas industry ...

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 ...

At COP16 in Cali, WWF, in collaboration with the Chalmers University of Technology, Trase, and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), launched an eye-opening report, “Uncovering Sub-Regional ...

The impacts of the deforestation of the Amazon Basin include the following. The creation of mines, farms and roads, which causes deforestation, has also led to economic development. The money ...

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 ...