The Esecaflor project, a collaboration between Brazilian and British scientists, simulates drought in the Amazon rainforest to understand its impacts. This long-running experiment reveals significant ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.

British journalist Dom Phillips was working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region by ...

Half of the world's forests were destroyed during the 20th century, with three regions mainly affected: South America, West ...

Abstract: We present a methodology for rapidly assessing deforestation over the Amazon region needed for policy intervention. We use soil fraction images generated from Moderate Resolution Imaging ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel approach to monitor the evolution of deforested areas in the Amazon rainforest, by combining Sentinel ... 1 satellites in order to cover the entire arch of ...

Deforestation pledges will go up in flames if we ignore inequality - THE ECO CHAMBER: With wildfires reaching new and ...

Brazilian meat giant JBS has come a step closer to its long-held goal of trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.