Deforestation in the Cerrado, Brazil's vast savanna, increased by nearly 45 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest level since 2019, according to data from the National Institute ...

Brazil: Amazon deforestation reaches new high before gov’t change. Incoming Brazilian President Lula da Silva has pledged to reach ‘zero deforestation’ after years of Amazon destruction.

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called out Leonardo DiCaprio’s recent tweet about deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, telling the actor and climate activist, "give up your yacht before ...

Between 2019 - when Bolsonaro took office - and 2021, Brazil lost over 33,800 square kilometers of rainforest in the Amazon according to INPE. That’s an area larger than Belgium, with an average ...

Deforestation is a major concern in the Amazon rainforest, where many seek to profit from its vast resources through mining, timber harvesting, agriculture and more.

Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da ... who as president between 2003 and 2010 oversaw a large reduction in deforestation of the Brazilian rainforest, ...

After Bolsonaro repeatedly promised to pave BR-319, the area around it this year for the first time became the Brazilian Amazon's main deforestation hotspot, according to official data.

Countries surrounding the Amazon rainforest, such as Brazil, Peru, ... has faced massive deforestation and destruction. Associated Press. ... 45-year-old alliance that has met only three times before.

At COP27 climate summit, Brazil’s Lula says Amazon deforestation to stop Lula tells the U.N. the 2025 climate conference should take place in the Amazon Published: Nov. 16, 2022 at 11:24 a.m. ET ...

Deforestation in the Cerrado, Brazil's vast savanna, increased by nearly 45 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest level since 2019, according to data from the National Institute ...