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Amazon deforestation reaches 7-year high in Brazil?
2015-06-19 01:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Imazon SAD's system serves as a short-term deforestation alert mechanism. Analysis of satellite data suggests deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon may have reached a seven-year high. Numbers released today by Imazon, a Belém-based non-profit, shows that deforestation in the region has been pacing ahead of the prior year's level for 13 consecutive months. The 12-month moving average of short-term deforestation alert data has reached a level not seen since September 2008. There are various...
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90% of Amazon deforestation occurs outside protected areas
2015-06-13 05:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Ten percent of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2012 and July 2014 occurred in protected areas, reports new research from Imazon. The study, based on spatial analysis, found that 158,400 hectares of the 1.531 million hectares cleared in the Amazon during the two-year period took place within 160 officially designated conservation units. Forest loss was heavily concentrated in 50 of those protected areas, which accounted for 96 percent of deforestation. Imazon says loss was...
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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon continues to accelerate
2015-04-27 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon - the planet's largest rainforest - continues to pace well ahead of last year's rate, reveals data released by Imazon, a Manaus-based nonprofit. According to Imazon's analysis of satellite data, March 2015 was the eleventh consecutive month that forest loss increased relative to a year earlier. March 2015's loss of 58 square kilometers (14,300 acres) was 190 percent higher than March 2014. November through April is typically a period of low deforestation...
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Deforestation in the Amazon Aggravates Brazils Energy Crisis
2015-04-03 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: In Brazil water and electricity go together, and two years of scant rainfall have left tens of millions of people on the verge of water and power rationing, boosting arguments for the need to fight deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Two-thirds of Brazil's electricity comes from dammed rivers, whose water levels have dropped alarmingly. The crisis has triggered renewed concern over climate change and the need to reforest river banks, and has given rise to new debate about the country's energy...
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Deforestation in the Amazon will cause precipitation in Britain
2014-12-18 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Britains wet weather could be made worse by deforestation in the Amazon, according to a new report into the effect of the loss of vast tracts of rainforest on the worlds climate. It has long been known that the loss of rainforest accelerates global warming because trees suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into oxygen and when they are felled, the stored carbon is released. Now new research from the University of Virginia argues that trees are not only the lungs of the...
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