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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 nine countries spanned by the Amazon. “2020, the year dominated by COVID-19, turned out to be qui...

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 Medical Marijuana The Florida Legislature convenes next week with a number of daunting challenges: a recor...

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 Association's Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, or MAAP, uses satellite imagery to flag potential deforestation sites and alert authorities to illegal activities across the Amazon rainforest in Peru, Bolivia,...

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 world's largest tropical rainforest within decades. Using satellite imagery, the report by Amazon Conservation Association and Monitoring the Andean Amazon Project, or MAAP, provides an early glimpse of deforestation i...

INTERVIEW-From gene sequencing to chocolate, Brazil's 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 as firms look for new medicines, or as agencies try to monitor pathogens that could spur new pande...