‘Amazonian deforestation can trigger more droughts'

Brazil, the Latin American country that holds 12 per cent of worldwide freshwater, just witnessed a drought and its driest winter in 84 years. An …

आस्ट्रेलिया में हो रही हैं आग लगने की सबसे अधिक घटनाएं

2015 के बाद 2019 में हुई आग लगने की सबसे अधिक घटनाएं, अफ्रीका भी है आग की चपेट में

अमेजन के जंगल की अंधाधुंध कटाई: 10 साल में कटा 84 लाख फुटबॉल मैदान जितना जंगल

कई शोध बताते हैं कि एक मिनट में अमेजन से 3 फुटबॉल मैदान जितना जंगल खत्म हो रहा है

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade

African grasslands are meant to burn – we can't let this distract from the Amazon fires

The world should be more bothered about the Amazon than about the fires in Africa's savnnahs

Rising CO2 level can lead to drier Amazon and bring more rain in African and Pacific forests

Large-scale changes in rainfall can happen based on how tropical forests respond to excess CO2 in the atmosphere

Brazil lost rainforest the size of Jamaica in 2019-2020: Institute

There was a 9.5 per cent jump in deforestation of the Brazillian Amazon since 2019, in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-…

The era of mega hydropower in Brazilian Amazon appears over

Statements by Brazilian government officials indicate major shift in policy

Nasa satellite imagery finds tremendous changes in Amazon in last 40 years

The scale of losses in forests land, increase in pasture land, shift in land use policy driven by economic forces are seen nowhere else in the world

Time, whose side are you on?

As Texaco-Chevron drags its feet over remedial measures in Ecuador's once-pristine Amazon forest, those affected endure a difficult …

दुनिया की 70 फीसदी वन भूमि के खराब होने का खतरा : यूएनसीसीडी

रिपोर्ट में 2030 तक वनों के गंभीर क्षति की आशंका जताई गई है। इस सूची में अमेजन के जंगल शीर्ष पर हैं।

How Brazil can beat the odds and restore a huge swathe of the Amazon

Native seed cultivation could represent a valuable source of income for local communities, boosting both conservation and the local economy

British actor Mark Rylance voices support for the Kawahiva

The hunter-gatherer tribe of the Amazon rainforest is threatened by loggers, miners and powerful ranchers who steal their land and resources

जंगलों की आग से फिर बदल सकता है धरती का जीवन!

अध्ययन बताते हैं कि अतीत में जीवन को नए सिरे से गढ़ने और कई प्रजातियों के विलुप्त होने का एक महत्वपूर्ण कारण वैश्विक स्तर ...

The Amazon fire: This and next time

Fires like the current one lead to wholesale irreversible changes in the structure and composition of forest ecosystems, impoverishing both their …

Top 5 global risks in next decade environmental: WEF report

The document also found a ‘generational shift’ in climate perception and warned about increasing health burden due to diseases

Hydropower is far from ‘harmless’, says study

Building of Brazil’s largest hydroelectric reservoir has caused loss of animal life in the surrounding area

Brazil finally gets some rain, but drought prevails

Country’s worst drought in nearly 80 years may lead to rationing of water by the government

Australian TV channel gets flak for racist depiction of Amazon tribe

Survival International launches 'Freakshow TV' to challenge Channel 7's portrayal of the Suruwaha as savages 

2015-16 El Niño: Wildfires in Amazon led to over 30 million tonnes of CO2 emission

Almost one million hectare of primary and secondary forests was burned during the 2015–2016 El Niño season

Death in the devil’s paradise

British colonial history is tainted by its involvement in rubber collection from the Peruvian Amazon, writes Survivor International

Fight fire with trade: How Europe can help save the Amazon

The EU is already responsible for hefty imports from the Mercosur bloc; it imports 10 million tonnes of soy (for livestock feed) and over 200,000 …

Amazon rainforest is drying out. How much more abuse can it take?

Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Preserving its trees is crucial to meeting international targets that limit …

Bolsanaro’s environmental crimes come under EU scanner

Europe’s resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening

Fossilised fish bones from Africa are fertilising the Amazon forest

Study shows that dust containing phosphorous from fish fossils helps photosynthesis in the Amazon region