Amazon Deforestation
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Dense smoke streamed from rainforests in Amazonas and Pará.
Drought and heat have fueled unusually high numbers of fires in the South American country during the first three months…
Huge understory fires are spreading throughout the state in northern Brazil as drought and heat turn the rainforest into tinder.
Indigenous people are protecting carbon-rich forests in South America, and satellites are helping.
A remote oil and logging road first established in eastern Peru in the 1980s has become a hub for forest…
Using satellite data from the past two decades, scientists are starting to pinpoint which crops and farming styles have lasting…
Researchers have created a satellite-based tool to help officials identify new activity.
An analysis of geostationary satellite data found a 10 to 15 percent increase in greening around the rainforest during the…
Large numbers of deforestation-related fires burned in the Amazon rainforest, while uncontrolled wildfires blazed in savanna and grassland ecosystems in…
