The Amazon faces many threats such as deforestation, illegal logging, climate change, fires, Lack of Sufficient Governance, Lack of Law Enforcement.

With as much as 17% of the forest lost already, scientists believe that the tipping point will be reached at 20% to 25% of deforestation even if climate change ...

May 9, 2024 · The Amazon rain forest absorbs one-fourth of the CO2 absorbed by all the land on Earth. The amount absorbed today, however, is 30% less than it ...

Aug 26, 2022 · Agribusiness and meat consumption are the primary drivers of deforestation in the Amazon and other biomes in Brazil such as the Pantanal and the ...

Jan 12, 2024 · The rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by nearly 50% in 2023 compared to the previous year, space agency data suggests.

Satellite data from 2018 revealed a decade-high rate of deforestation in the Amazon, with approximately 7,900 km2 (3,100 sq mi) destroyed between August 2017 ...

Dec 16, 2023 · Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest represents a critical issue in our modern world, as it is the root cause of many global problems.

Large-scale deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon began in the 1960s, when government incentives to clear land for production coincided with more effective ...

Aug 21, 2023 · Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, in Maués, on december 11, 2020 ... Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Feijo, Acre state, Brazil.