CARAJÁS, Brazil — Jefferson Sousa could have been eking out a living at the expense of the Amazonforest, working on a cattle ranch like his father. “It was all I knew, it was what kept our ...
Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the AmazonRainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...
In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...
Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazonrainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the ...
Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have ...
Extreme drought across Brazil’s Amazon worsens local fears for the future Historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife across Brazil’s Amazon and ...
The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, a study showed Monday. The South American jungle ...
Fires in Brazil's AmazonRainforest Region Surge for Third Month By Stefanie Eschenbacher SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) - Fires in Brazil's Amazonrainforest region surged to the highest number ...
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