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A first look at this year’s deforestation hotspots across the Amazon shows that Brazil, once again, has the grim distinction of being a leader in destruction. Massive areas of forest loss in Brazil cluster around major road networks, and many of these areas also burned this year. According to a recent report from Amazon Conservation’s […]

Earlier this year, the Peruvian government established a new agrobiodiversity zone a tenth the size of its capital, Lima, high in the Andes. Here, in the Marcapata Ccollana community, the 22,679-hectare (55,800-acre) zone is home to 99 varieties of potato that flourish alongside dozens of other root vegetables and a mélange of protein-rich and pest-resistant […]

SAS AI-powered deforestation detection app recognised as world-changing Sunday, 27 June 2021 17:54 SAS AI-powered deforestation detection app recognised as world-changing Shares Analytics software and solutions company SAS received was honourably mentioned in the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards for its joint project with the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis tracking the human impact in the Amazon rainforest. It is one of many social innovation projects from SAS ...

Extreme drought and deforestation are priming the Amazon rainforest for a terrible fire season MGN Online By Drew Kann, CNN Scientists are on high alert that the Amazon is careening toward a destructive fire season. Parts of Brazil and its typically lush rainforest are parched by drought and loaded with fire-kindling fuel after a surge of deforestation in 2020. Experts say the region has rarely been drier than it is now, and researchers who monitor the Amazon have already spotted a rash of larg...

We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz Enrique Ortiz is a Peruvian biologist who has been working in conservation in Latin America since the 1970s. Today he works at the Andes Amazon Fund, a philanthropic initiative that has helped establish 79 protected areas and get 18 Indigenous territories titled. Ortiz says the pandemic has been “terrible and tragic” for both people and the environment, with a rise in poverty, violence against environmental defenders, and ...

by Wire Reports — April 21, 2021 . CARY – SAS will work with the Amazon Conservation and the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People (HR4HP) Initiative led by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, with three objectives: stopping rainforest deforestation, improving reef health, and reducing the carbon footprint of the Cary-based company. SAS announced the news earlier today in a press statement. “We feel a responsibility to use our technology and our resources to find answers to the...

SAS strives to combat deforestation, improve reef health and lower emissions Analytics leader working with the Smithsonian and Amazon Conservation to help protect the planet News provided by Share this article Share this article CARY, N.C., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SAS commitment to creating a more sustainable future through social innovation is highlighted this Earth Day, as the analytics innovator works with the Amazon Conservation and the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People (HR4HP) Initi...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 8, 2021 10:40am U.S. President Joe Biden in January (Twitter Photo: @POTUS) The Lead The Treasury Department estimates that eliminating subsidies for fossil fuel companies would create more than $35 billion in tax revenue over the coming decade. It also said the current subsidies undermine energy independence, hinders the fight against climate change, and harms air and water quality across the country, especially in communities of colour. “T...

Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest Rose By 17% In 2020 08/04/2021 An aerial view of a tract of Amazon jungle after it was cleared by farmers in Para, Brazil on September 26, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Ricardo Moraes  Bogota: Deforestation in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and logging causing forested areas roughly the size of El Salvador to disappear, according to new data published on Wednesday. The loss of primary for...

Amazon deforestation rose 17pc in dire 2020, data shows Published: Share Tweet Recipients Name Send The loss of primary forest - the clearing of old-growth, intact forest for the first time - hit its third-highest annual total on record since 2000, reaching 2.3 million hectares (5.6 million acres) in the nine countries spanned by the Amazon. File photo: Amazon forest Brasilia: Deforestation in the Am...