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

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

The new edition, MapBiomas Trinational Atlantic Forest 2.0, is the outcome of a collaborative network of specialists in areas such as land use, satellite remote sensing, Geographic Information ...

According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested biome in 2023 following the damages detected in the region known as Matopiba, which ...

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 ...

"Unusual and concerning" and "atypical and alarming"—this is how Ane Alencar, Science Director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and Coordinator of MapBiomas, described 2024 ...

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 ...

Under MapBiomas's partnership with Banco do Brasil, the owners of land where tree loss is detected are flagged by the bank as potential deforesters, said Rosa. The alert goes to all branches of ...

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

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 ...