For weeks, we’ve seen headlines saying the Amazon rainforest is burning.But something unexpected happens when you map satellite data showing both the fires this year and those that have burned ...

The map of the Amazon Basin reveals a far greater extent of peatlands than previously documented. The new research article, published in Environmental Research Letters, sheds light on a critical ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's ...

Across the Amazon Basin as a whole, shallow-water-table forests were more likely to experience greening during droughts, which was detected by large-scale studies of satellite imagery.

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

Satellite images of the Rio Negro on September 12 2021 versus September 16 2024 ... Last year’s devastating drought in the Amazon Basin was made 30 times more likely by climate change, ...

A new Multivariate Drought Severity Index to identify short-term hydrological signals: case study of the Amazon River basin. Remote Sensing of Environment , 2024; 315: 114464 DOI: 10.1016/j.rse ...

The eight countries that comprise the Amazon River basin agreed on several initiatives to curtail deforestation in the world’s largest and most important rainforest. By Manuela Andreoni and Max ...

Drought leaves Amazon basin rivers at all-time low. 18 September 2024. Share Save. Mark Poynting, Climate and environment researcher & Vanessa Buschschlüter, Online Latin America editor.

Satellite images of the Rio Negro on September 12 2021 versus September 16 2024 ... Last year’s devastating drought in the Amazon Basin was made 30 times more likely by climate change, ...