However, INPE’s DETER alert system also recorded a sharp rise in forest degradation. Deforestation in 2024 versus 2023 in the Brazilian Amazon according to Imazon’s SAD system. Forest ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon ... over forest protection and weakened environmental agencies. In July, Colombia reported historic lows in deforestation in 2023 ...

“The destination of this enormous forest mass is almost a question of the country’s security.” The map ... deforestation around highways, whose surroundings account for 50% of Amazon ...

In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo. Fires are traditionally ...