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Amazon basin deforestation could disrupt distant rainforest by remote climate connection
2017-06-26 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The ongoing deforestation around the fringes of the Amazon may have serious consequences for the untouched deeper parts of the rainforest. A new research study shows that it is not only the climate that is adversely affected by deforestation. In fact, the very stability of the ecosystem in the entire Amazon region is altered when deforestation takes place in the outermost regions. It was previously known that, in the long term, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has a …
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Proposed Amazon dam would fuel land speculation, deforestation, study says
2016-06-28 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A proposed dam in the heart of the Amazon will lead to a wave of deforestation as remote areas of the world's largest rainforest are opened to agriculture, said a study from Brazilian researchers published on Tuesday. Local businesses with contracts to help build the proposed Tapajos dam complex are likely to use their profits to buy land in the Amazon for soy farming or cattle ranching, said the study published by the Federal University of Western Para in northeastern Brazil. Such land purchases...
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Amazon deforestation jumps in Brazil
2015-11-27 23:04:19| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Deforestation jumped 16 percent in the Brazilian Amazon for the year ended July 31, 2015, but still remained well below historical levels. Forest loss amounted to 5,831 square kilometers, an area half the size of Los Angeles. The rise, which was announced just ahead of the opening of U.N. climate talks in Paris, had been widely anticipated based on data from short-term satellite-based monitoring systems. Deforestation jumped 16 percent in the Brazilian Amazon to 5,831 square kilometers for...
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Amazon deforestation leaps 16 percent in 2015
2015-11-27 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Illegal logging and clearing of Brazil's Amazon rainforest increased 16 percent in the last year, the government said, in a setback to the aim of stopping destruction of the world's greatest forest by 2030. The area of deforestation grew to 2,251 square miles (5,830 square kilometers) between July 2014 and August 2015, the environment ministry said. The biggest increases were in the states of Amazonas, with a 54 percent rise, Rondonia with 41 percent and Mato Grosso with 40 percent, the ministry...
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Increase in rate of Brazilian Amazon deforestation raises alarm
2015-09-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Figures released this week point to an apparent rise in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last year, an ominous development that one researcher attributed to an increase in cattle ranching aimed at the U.S. market. The newly lost forest, nearly 2,000 square miles, amounts to an area about the size of Delaware. The report was published by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research and is based on satellite data used to monitor day-to-day changes in Amazon forest cover. The figures...
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