The images above show the amount of deforestation between 2000 and 2019 around a portion of one of Brazil's major highways, called the BR-163, according to NASA. The highway, which is over 1,000 ...

Illegal deforestation is wiping out a significant portion of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. According to a report by Mongabay, satellite images have recently revealed that deforestation around ...

Marking the International Day of Forests, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows an area of Bolivia ... there has been rapid deforestation since the 1980s to accommodate programmes to resettle ...

Amazon Conservation concluded, based on analysis of high-resolution satellite images, that the deforestation and fires were for soy judging by their location, size, orderliness and linear shape.

Satellite images show that a small minority of farmers are responsible for most of the deforestation in Brazil. Scientists are calling on international grain traders to stop buying from those farmers.

The official annual period is measured from August to July as there is less cloud cover in the middle of the year to obscure deforestation on satellite images.

In a presentation last week, an Inpe scientist blamed the large month-to-month fluctuations on cloud cover that hid deforestation on satellite images in January, only for it to be revealed in ...

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell in July to its lowest level for the month since 2017, preliminary government figures showed on Thursday, boosting ...

Using historical satellite images also allowed them to detect now ... accounting for around half of all the deforestation tracked, followed by gold, tin and nickel. And while the data showed ...