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3 Min Read BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - 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 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...

Courtesy of Illuminate Coral Gables Twenty-seven American-made pedicabs are transformed into kinetic and interactive sculptures through 1000 handmade silk Chinese lanterns by artist Cai Guo-Qiang for the "Illuminate Coral Gables" public installation. Florida lawmakers look to expand Medicaid and medical marijuana. Saving the Brazilian rainforest. Plus, a new art exhibit lights up the City of Coral Gables. On this Monday, Feb. 22, episode of Sundial: Lawmakers Push To Expand Medicaid And Medica...

Source: Amazon Conservation Association Nearly real-time satellite imagery analysis has been spotting and stymying illegal gold mining activity in the Amazon rainforest. The mining sector is a substantial contributor to forest ecosystem destruction, and a recent report suggests the world is behind on international goals to end global deforestation by 2030. The Amazon Conservation Associations Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, or MAAP, uses satellite imagery to flag potential deforestati...

Amazon rainforest lost area the size of Israel in 2020 © Neil Giardino/ABC News The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres in 2020, an area roughly the size of Israel, according to a recent report on the region. Experts warn that unchecked deforestation in the Amazon basin, which encompasses nine countries in South America, could trigger a tipping point in the worlds largest tropical rainforest within decades. Using satellite imagery, the report by Amazon Conservation Associat...

INTERVIEW-From gene sequencing to chocolate, Brazils Amazon looks for a new development model Reuters 2/1/2021 By Fabio Zuker SAO PAULO, Feb 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Instead of expanding destructive farming and logging, Brazil should "develop" the Amazon region by producing high-value products from its indigenous biodiversity, from nuts and fruits to medicinal plants, a top forest researcher said. Sequencing the genomes of its many unique species, for example, could result in earnings...

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds by Morgan Erickson-Davis on 28 January 2021 The Amazon basin lost more than 2 million hectares of primary forest cover in 2020, according to a new report by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). This number is higher than the area lost in 2019 and the authors say it may be an underestimation. Brazil lost the most primary forest, with Bolivia experiencing high levels of fire-related deforestat...

An area the size of Israel was deforested in the Amazon biome last year as destruction surged 21% in the region spanning nine countries that is home to the worlds largest rainforest, according to the Amazon Conservation organization. At that accelerated rate, the Amazon rainforest will reach a tipping point in 10 to 20 years, after which it will enter a sustained death spiral as it dries out and turns into a savanna, said Carlos Nobre, an earth systems scientist at University of Sao Paulo. Abou...

The Straits Times Amazon biome hurtles towards death spiral as deforestation jumps in 2020 An August 2020 photo shows fire brigade officials trying to control hot points in a tract of the Amazon jungle in Brazil.PHOTO: REUTERS UpdatedJan 28, 2021, 4:22 am PublishedJan 28, 2021, 4:13 am SGT https://str.sg/JKnb They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully ...

2 Min Read BRASILIA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - An area the size of Israel was deforested in the Amazon biome last year as destruction surged 21% in the region spanning nine countries that is home to the world’s largest rainforest, according to the Amazon Conservation organization. A first look at deforestation in the full year of 2020 shows that roughly 21,000 square kilometers (8,108 square miles) of old-growth forest was cut or burned down, about the size of New Jersey, the U.S.-based non-profit g...