The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse...

The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon...

mining, leading to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Such activity is generally illegal within these nations, but enforcement of environmental protection...

help achieve zero net deforestation by 2020. Due to deforestation the Amazon was a net emitter of greenhouse gas in the 2010s. The effects include "severe...

Brazil: Deforestation rises sharply as farmers push into Amazon, The Guardian, 1 September 2008 China is black hole of Asia's deforestation, Asia News...

many birds in the Amazon. Birds migrate to the Amazon rainforest from the North or South. Amazon birds are threatened by deforestation since they primarily...

there. Rainforests as well as endemic rainforest species are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation, the resulting habitat loss and pollution of the atmosphere...

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is the most dramatic example of a massive, continuous ecosystem and a biodiversity hotspot being under the immediate...

These are areas of mature rainforest that are especially important for biodiversity and carbon storage. The direct cause of most deforestation is agriculture...

with no remuneration provided. Brazil's efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon rainforest have been recognised worldwide. Brazil’s pioneering technological...

The Amazon biome (Portuguese: Bioma Amazônia) contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of...

2019). "Norvergence reveals the real culprit of Amazon deforestation and wildfires". Nation of Change. Archived from the original on September 7, 2020...

1 million sq mi) area of dense tropical forest, it is the largest rainforest in the world. The Amazon River begins in the Andes Mountains at the west of the basin with...

conditions. The wildfires caused significant deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and also impacted several other international biomes including the Pantanal...

and examine the possibility that recent droughts in the country are being caused by the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. This is the Flying Rivers...

as the Peruvian jungle (Spanish: selva peruana) or just the jungle (Spanish: la selva), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes...

inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest altered the forest's ecology by selective cultivation and the use of fire. Scientists argue that by burning areas of the forest...

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forest, after the Amazon rainforest. It covers over 500,000,000 acres (2,000,000 km2) across six countries and contains a quarter of the world's remaining...

The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is...

driver of environmental damage, notably deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through land clearance for agriculture. The early history of the Mennonites...

queries. Another application is TerraAmazon, Brazil's national database for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. It handles more than 2 million...

to massive deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. On the other hand, the situation is quite different where forest growth has been on the increase for...

could lead to increased deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by expanding market access for Brazilian beef. A 2019 report by the Indigenous Missionary...

the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and by other observers as one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century. Since the time of Sumer...

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in the 20th century as actions of genocide. The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has been highlighted as a driving factor in the destruction of indigenous...

accompanies these fires mirror the patterns of deforestation and "high deforestation rates led to frequent fires". The Amazon rainforest has recently experienced...

last isolated Indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest, with only three known survivors. Violence and deforestation have led to significant losses, with...

disturbances in the environment and their numbers may drop significantly in the future due to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Emmons, L.; Helgen...