Some 52 million hectares of natural land have been lost in the Brazilian Amazon region since 1985 – an area larger than Spain ...

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas monito ...

Brazil saw a 32.4% decline in deforestation, with five out of six biomes experiencing reductions, MapBiomas -a network of NGOs, universities, and technology companies- reported this week. The ...

MapBiomas will allow users to analyze changes in different terrestrial biomes, agricultural lands, pastures and coastal zones in Brazil over the last three decades. MapBiomas has currently been ...

Sullivan said the MapBiomas data was “eye-popping”, though unsurprising; nearly 90 per cent of South America’s wetland area is estimated to have vanished since 1900, and nearly 40 per cent ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by more than 20% last year according to a report released on Monday by environmental thinktank Mapbiomas. The Brazil-based organization made up of ...

Some 52 million hectares of natural land have been lost in the Brazilian Amazon region since 1985—an area larger than Spain.

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas monitoring platform said Wednesday, boosting the government as it prepares to ...

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas ...

Nationwide, the loss over the past four decades amounts to 111.7 million hectares – more than three times the size of Germany – a report by the initiative MapBiomas released on Wednesday showed.