‘Giving up’: Amazon Is Losing Its Resilience Under Human Pressure, Study Shows
The Amazon Rainforest is losing its ability to bounce back from repeated disturbances, according to a new study.
Researchers found that three-quarters of the Amazon has lost some resilience, or ability to regain biomass after disturbance. This loss of resilience is especially high in regions close to human activity and with less rainfall.
In Destroying the Amazon, Big Agribusiness Is Torching Its Own Viability
A new study has found that the transition zone between the Amazon and Cerrado in the northeast of Brazil has heated up significantly and become drier in the past two decades.
The research points to deforestation in the Amazon and global climate changes as factors prolonging the dry season and warming up the region, leaving it susceptible to severe droughts and forest fires.
January Deforestation In the Amazon Highest In 14 Years
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon last month was the highest of any January dating back to 2008, reports Brazil’s national space research agency INPE.
According to data released today, 430 square miles of rainforest was chopped down in January, a 400% rise over January 2021 when 86 square kilometers was lost. The average extent of deforestation in January for the past 15 years has been 171 square kilometers.
Amazon Losing Far More Carbon from Forest Degradation than Deforestation: Study
Forest degradation — due to human and environmental causes — was responsible for more carbon loss than deforestation between 2010 and 2019, researchers reported at the most recent American Geophysical Union meeting in December.