BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to ...

The year 2024 saw significant developments in tropical rainforest conservation, deforestation, and degradation. While progress in some regions provided glimmers of hope, systemic challenges and ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the ...

This comes only a year after the Brazilian government rolled out a new plan to ramp up forestry enforcement, crack down on illegal ranchers, and stop deforestation in the Amazon by 2030.

Global deforestation surged in 2023 to 6.37 million hectares. Tropical regions are critically affected, accounting for 96 per cent of deforestation.

The No. 1 driver of deforestation in Brazil, for example, is clearing forests to raise cattle, some of which is exported as beef. (“Maybe don’t consume beef from Brazil,” Ordway says.) ...

The Rainforest Labs and Forest Monitor teams are working at grassroots level to more quickly and efficiently combat forest losses; Cool Earth has recorded up to 82 per cent less deforestation in ...

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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in 12 months through July President Lula's enforcement of environmental laws credited for reduction Lula pledges to end deforestation by 2030, hires 800 ...

Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024 By: Steven Grattan, The Associated Press Posted: 8:30 AM CST Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024 Last Modified: 8:35 AM CST Saturday, Dec ...

The data similarly showed a drop in deforestation in the Amazon's neighboring Cerrado savanna of roughly 26% to 8,174 sq km, the lowest since 2020. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the ...

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point, Indigenous people will have been a determinant factor," Miller said. Wildfires and extreme drought. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to ...