Amazon Forest Loss Leads to Measurable Drop in Regional Rainfall

Colombia lost huge area to deforestation in 6 months, public watchdog report warns

Colombia's Procurator’s Office says the country has lost nearly 88,900 hectares of forest — an area larger than New York City — in six months due to illegal road construction, expanding coca cultivation, and unregulated mining. The office's new report…

Amazon forest loss leads to measurable drop in regional rainfall

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested.

In six months, between October 2024 and March 2025, Colombia lost 88,808 hectares of forest in the Amazon and recorded the opening of 1,107 kilometers of illegal roads, many within or near national parks such as Chiribiquete, La Macarena, Nukak, Farallones de Cali and Barí. This is revealed by the Second Follow-up Report to Deforestation, published by the Attorney General's Office in collaboration with the Foundation for Conservation and Sustain…

Latin America's tropical forests, including the Amazon in Peru and Brazil, take too long to adapt to climate change, increasing their vulnerability to various phenomena. The harmful effects are associated with droughts, heat waves and loss of biodiversity, according to the report published in the journal Science. The study showed that although [...] The post Latin America: Adaptation of tropical forests to climate change takes too long first app…

Every day, the mortifying pressure of multinationals is growing, including on still preserved spaces. In Brazil, the Amazonian basin and its peripheral regions are plagued by massive deforestation. Place to the cultivation of soybeans, cattle rearing and recurrent pollution generated by mining, at the expense of biodiversity and the survival of local communities. 10 May 2025, taken from the site of Terrestres https://www.terrestres.org/2025/05/1…

According to several studies, the Amazon (the largest rainforest on the planet) has lost since 1970 a greater extent than all of France due to the fires and indiscriminate logging, driven mainly by the need to provide pastures to the cattle macrofarms.The years in which the far-right Jair Bolsonaro ruled (2019-2023) represented a severe setback in the conservation of this space, as he tolerated the illegal action of gangs that deforested, expell…