Tag: rainforest
Over 700 new species discovered in the rainforest
Biodiversity is threatened in many places in the world, but there are glimmers of light. According to a recent report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 742 animal…
EU agrees on rainforest rules
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Burning forest in the state of Amazonas in Brazil in 2023. Stock photography. Photo: Edmar Barros/AP/TT The EU countries and the EU Parliament have now…
That’s why fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest
Tigran Feiler says, among other things, that climate change is making the dry periods longer. – In Brazil, for example, statistics have been kept there since the 1950s and they…
Record drought in the Amazon region prevents shipping and destroys the rainforest | News in brief
The previous drought record in the Amazon was set last year. The drought in the Amazon region in Brazil is already exceeding record readings. Comparable statistics have been kept for…
This discovery changes the history of the Amazon rainforest: an enormous network of millennia-old cities under the jungle
The discovery of an ancient urban network in the heart of the Amazon calls into question the history of the region. Emblematic of the fight to protect the environment, the…
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is decreasing
The data on deforestation in Brazil comes from the National Space Institute’s Deters monitoring program. The scale of the devastation in 2023 is significant as President Luiz Inácio Lula da…
Can Lula save the rainforest?
Facts: Lula da Silva Born as Luiz Inácio da Silva in 1945 in the poor state of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil. Began to be called Lula (“octopus”) when he became…
“One Forest Summit” in Gabon: protecting the rainforest
It is in Libreville that is launched, this Wednesday, March 1st, the One Forest Summit, high-level summit on the protection of tropical forests. Several heads of state and government are…
Scavenged rainforest – bigger problem than feared
Published: Just now previous full screen Next Drone image from one of the studied areas in Malaysian Borneo. 1 of 2Photo: Ross Gray/PNAS Cutting down rainforest can have a greater…
The Amazon rainforest is burning more and more!
This summer will once again have been devastating for the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. This month of August, it really experienced its worst incendiary ravages for twelve years. Satellite data has…