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 Rainforest Has Lost 24,000 Square Miles in Last 10 Years—An Area the Size of West Virginia. Published Dec 24, 2019 ... the Amazon rainforest is responsible for storing over 180 billion ...

Crucial illegal road threatens Amazon rainforest as experts say stakes couldn’t be higher. ... the area deforested in Brazil’s Amazon has reached a 15-year high, according to official data.

From 2001-20, the rainforest lost 542,581 square kilometers (209,492 square miles), an area larger than Spain, according to data released in March by the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio ...

Amazon rainforest lost area the size of Israel in 2020. The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres in 2020. 4 years ago. 5 years ago.

Wildfires and extreme drought. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

An area of Brazil's Amazon rainforest decimated by wildfires, as seen on August 25, 2019. Victor Moriyama/Getty Images. Key Facts. The study used satellite photo, radio and microwave data to ...

In the past 12 months, the Amazon rainforest lost 4,300 square kilometers (1,700 square miles), an area roughly the size of Rhode Island. That’s a nearly 46% decrease compared to the previous ...

THE Amazon rainforest — known as the “lungs of the planet” — is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is famed for its biodiversity and animal life. Covering an enormous 1.7 billi… ...

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest river basin in the world. For many generations, this area of the world has been an adventurer's paradise and dream destination for exploration. While there ...

Between January and October, an area larger than the state of Iowa — 37.42 million acres, or about 15.1 million hectares of Brazil’s Amazon — burned. Bolivia had a record number of fires in ...