- Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022. The world's largest tropical rainforest lost 3,750 square kilometers (1,450 square miles) of jungle since the beginning of the year, the worst numbers for that period since record-keeping began in 2016 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220701-brazil-sets-new-six-month-amazon-deforestation-record 17 comments environment
- Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022. The world's largest tropical rainforest lost 3,750 square kilometers (1,450 square miles) of jungle since the beginning of the year, the worst numbers for that period since record-keeping began in 2016 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220701-brazil-sets-new-six-month-amazon-deforestation-record 35 comments worldnews
- Rainforest deforestation more than doubled under cover of coronavirus: Tropical rainforests shrank by 6,500 square kilometers in March. Criminal groups are taking advantage of the pandemic and the unemployed are getting desperate https://www.dw.com/en/wwf-rainforest-deforestation-more-than-doubled-under-cover-of-coronavirus/a-53526064 104 comments worldnews
- 43,000 square feet per second: The Rate of Tropical Deforestation http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080203/ap_on_re_af/60_acres_a_minute_i 2 comments reddit.com
- Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square miles of the jungle. http://news.trust.org//item/20190906203959-8ujoc/ 4 comments worldnews