The high-resolution map provides the first field-data-driven extent of peatlands in the Amazon basin and will be ... "This work will guide new exploration of areas that are predicted to contain ...

August fires in the Amazon basin in the last six years. 2014. 2015. 2016. Amazon Basin. Amazon Basin. Amazon Basin. 2017. 2018. ... White areas on the map below show deforestation in Apuí, ...

Addressing policy "blind spots" that allow energy production and mineral exploration to trump environmental protection could help improve the outlook for conservation in the Amazon Basin ...

Innovative approaches, including public-private partnerships and AI tools, show promise in improving ... including in the Amazon Basin. Governments, companies and non-governmental organizations ...

However, the extent and intensity of impacts on specific biological groups are uncertain and need to be explored ... basin management policies in the Amazon are nascent and concentrated in the MAP ...

The area destroyed was 142% larger than in 2023, wiping out progress that Brazilian and Colombian governments had made in curbing deforestation. Brazil, where most of the Amazon sits, lost more ...

One in 10 of all animal species are found in the Amazon ... the area. The region spans the borders of eight countries and one overseas territory. The Amazon has the world's largest river basin ...

In Colombia, the illicit cultivation of coca leaf -- the raw ingredient for cocaine -- has invaded several protected forest areas. Often described as the "lungs of the planet," the Amazon basin is ...

New research shows that there are about 390 billion trees belonging to 16,000 species in the Amazon Basin. Covering an area nearly the ... When a species does show up in multiple regions, it ...

this project intends to accelerate the discovery of plants and fungi in one of the least explored regions of the Amazon basin, filling in critical knowledge gaps across evolution, taxonomy and ...