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News Brazil » Amazonas: Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline in size of area burned in 2025

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Published on: Tuesday 21 July 2026

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

News Brazil » Amazonas: Amazon fires drop to historic low in 2025

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Published on: Tuesday 21 July 2026

SAO PAULO - Barrio Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon fell to a historic low in 2025 after peaking the previous year, according to a report published Tuesday. The data gathered by environmental ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Collapse of Amazon soy pact to unleash new deforestation: study

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Published on: Thursday 16 July 2026

The collapse of a landmark Amazon soy pact will drive at least 1.4 million hectares (3.5 million acres) of extra deforestation in Brazil over the next decade, releasing carbon emissions equal to ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Amazon soy pact collapse could drive 1.4 million hectares of deforestation in Brazil by 2036, new study finds

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/amazon-soy-pact-collapse-could-drive-14-million-hectares-of-deforestation-in-brazil-by-2036-new-study-finds/ar-AA28hcdx
Published on: Sunday 19 July 2026

A voluntary soy deforestation pact has collapsed after nearly two decades of success. This collapse is predicted to cause significant future deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Researchers ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year

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Published on: Thursday 07 November 2024

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Smoke from Brazil Amazon rainforest fires suffocates Manaus

News channel or source: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-brazil-amazon-rainforest-suffocates-manaus.html
Published on: Friday 13 October 2023

Manaus, the largest city in Brazil's Amazonas state, has for days been engulfed by a toxic cloud of smoke from forest fires lit by what the government labeled "criminals". The city of nearly two ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations

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Published on: Thursday 11 June 2026

Brazilian officials have announced a significant drop in deforestation rates. Brazilian officials on Thursday thus pushed back on accusations used by the United States to justify tariffs on Brazil.

News Brazil » Amazonas: How Can Brazil’s Amazon Resist Longer Floods And Stronger Droughts?

News channel or source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwight/2024/09/15/how-can-brazils-amazon-resist-longer-floods-and-stronger-droughts/
Published on: Sunday 15 September 2024

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Brazil's Amazon region has faced devastating flooding and drought. Dramatic photos show life in towns weathering the extremes of climate change.

News channel or source: https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-crisis-photos-brazil-flooding-drought-2024-1
Published on: Wednesday 03 January 2024

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. In 2021, towns in Amazonas, Brazil, along the Amazon River and its tributaries flooded due to ...