By André Schröder Brazil is a country shaped by highways. The transportation model adopted by President Juscelino Kubitschek ...

Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its Biomass satellite mission—marking a ...

The BR-319 is famed as one of South America's most challenging drives, but those who attempt it are rewarded with an unfiltered experience of the Amazon that few get to see.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon — Earth’s largest rainforest — is on a continued downward trajectory, according to data released today by Brazil’s national space research institute ...

Throughout the Amazon, gold mining accounts for nearly 10% of deforestation ... small-scale mining destroyed more than 367 square miles (950 square km)) of rainforest in this territory — an area more ...

Amazon rainforest: Deforestation rate halved in 2023. 12 January 2024. ... Preliminary data from national space agency Inpe showed 5,153 sq km (1,989.6 sq miles) of the Amazon were cleared in 2023 ...

Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon were destroyed, an area larger than the U.S. state of Delaware, data from Brazil's space research agency Inpe showed.

Brazilian space research center INPE said on Wednesday that carbon emissions in the Amazon forest soared in 2019 and 2020 ... INPE data showed 500 square km (123,000 acres) of rainforest were ...

The Amazon Rainforest, covering approximately 6.7 million sq km, is the largest rainforest on Earth. The rainforest is spread across nine countries – Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Suriname, Peru ...

Preliminary data shows more than 5,000 sq km ... Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva said the falling rate was a "reflection" of Ibama's ongoing work in the rainforest. The Amazon is a ...

Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon were destroyed, an area larger than the U.S. state of Delaware, data from Brazil's space research agency Inpe showed.