When Celso Silva Junior, a Ph.D. candidate at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), stepped back from his recently completed map of Brazil’s secondary forests, he was surprised by ...

In 2000, when the internet in Brazil was still in its infancy, an email with an alarming message about the Amazon went viral. It claimed that the United States and the United Nations had taken the ...

Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of the Amazon were lost last year, mostly in Brazil and Bolivia.

Brazil has seen 100,000 fire alerts in 10 days, but it's not just the Amazon — one map shows how much of South America is burning ...

This map shows millions of acres of lost Amazon rainforest. New data illustrates in painful detail the accelerated loss of Brazil’s forest cover.

According to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, there have been 53,620 fire spots in the Amazon from Jan. 1 to Aug. 27, marking an 83% increase compared to the same period last year.

Carlos Nobre, who is one of Brazil’s leading climate scientists, has warned that this tipping point is likely to be reached when the Amazon is between 20% and 25% cleared. Today, the level is ...

When in drought: Researchers map which parts of the Amazon are most vulnerable to climate change. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 ...

The Itaquai River in Brazil. The Amazon rainforest plays an important role in regulating Earth’s climate by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics ...