Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and basins ...

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear ...

Maps showing the extent of global ... Which countries are still cutting down trees? Why deforestation is such a hot topic Brazil's Amazon: Deforestation 'surges to 12-year high' Trees are ...

Researchers used freely available maps and data ... of properties in the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands are responsible for 62% of all potentially illegal deforestation.

The pristine canopy of the Amazon ... deforestation levels reached a new record. Satellite data from Brazil's federal space research institute shows that roughly 1,455 square kilometres of ...

It is estimated that nearly twenty percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down in the last fifty years, and the rate of this deforestation has increased in recent years.