For weeks, we’ve seen headlines saying the Amazon rainforest is burning. But something unexpected happens when you map satellite data ... August fires in the Amazon basin in the last six years ...

An update to one of the most comprehensive maps of the Amazon basin shows that forest cover across the world’s largest rainforest declined by about six percent between 2000 and 2010. But the map ...

Humans have been part of the vast forest–river system of the Amazon basin for many thousands of years, but expansion and intensification of agriculture, logging and urban footprints during the ...

In NASA satellite images, forest fires in central Africa appear to burn alarmingly like a red chain from Gabon to Angola similar to the blazes in Brazil’s Amazon ... maps don’t provide details ...

How much of the Amazon Rainforest has been LOST by ravaging wildfires? The shocking map from InfoAmazonia below ... flames were located in the Amazon basin, which is home to the world’s largest ...

Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a continuing drought, the Brazilian Geological Service (SGB) says. The Madeira river, a major ...

Notwithstanding these and other obstacles, new technologies are helping to optimize detection, deterrence and disruption of environmental crime, including in the Amazon Basin. Governments ...