US EditionAs UN climate talks loom, Brazil's Amazon forest loses in May an area larger than NYC
- Brazil's Amazon rainforest lost 960 square kilometers of forest cover by May 2025, marking a 92% increase over May 2024 and the second-highest May loss since 2016.
- Wildfires caused 51% of the loss, a sharp rise from 1% in 2022, while record droughts driven by climate change contributed to the rest of the degradation.
- Between 2024 and 2025, Brazil's enforcement agencies conducted nearly 19,000 operations, issued over 5,000 fines, and embargoed 560,600 hectares amid illegal mining and agribusiness incursions.
- Interim Environment Minister João Paulo Capobianco warned this surge threatens to undo progress made since 2023, urging COP30 in Belém to deliver enforceable safeguards and Indigenous land rights.
- This ongoing forest loss risks reversing recent deforestation declines and undermines Brazil’s Paris Agreement commitments, emphasizing the urgent need to intensify conservation efforts.
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Just a few months away from hosting the next international negotiations to combat global warming (COP30 in the city of Belém), Brazil is recording bad figures in terms of deforestation. An increase over the last ten months and a spectacular increase of +92% last month, compared to the month of May last year. However, halting the destruction of the forest is essential for Brazil to reduce its carbon emissions and President Lula has made it his ba…
Amazon Deforestation Soars 92% as Brazil Prepares to Host COP30 - teleSUR English
Five months out from COP30 in Belém, data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE, May 2025) reveal that Amazon deforestation jumped 92% between May 2024 and May 2025. Fueled by wildfires and record-shattering droughts, this surge undercuts the climate-leader image Brazil hopes to showcase at the upcoming summit. RELATED: Brazilian President Arrives in Paris Ahead of UN Ocean Conference By May 2025, the world’s largest rainfore…
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) presented on Friday information about the warnings of deforestation in the Amazon, Closed and Pantanal during last May. READ ALSO: Brazilian Amazon will host a global meeting against climate crisis in November According to information from the Deter system of the National Institute of Space Research (INPE), the increase in deforesta…
The data published by the Ministry of the Environment of Brazil are attributed to 51% of the exploration recorded in Amazon in the last month to fires, 48% to wood exploration and 1% to illegal mining.
As UN climate talks loom, Brazil's Amazon forest loses in May an area larger than NYC
Brazil's environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same month last year, according to official monitoring data released Friday.
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