Tag: INPE

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits record highs

  

  Brazil's Amazon lost 903.8 square kilometers of forest during the month of October of 2022, which is tantamount to 3% more than in the same period last year, the National Institute of Special Research (INPE) reported during the weekend.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  Deforestation of Amazonia takes turn for the worse despite Brazilian President's promises

  

  Brazil's National Institute Institute for Space Research (Inpe) has released over this past weekend updated data regarding the deforestation of Amazonia between August 2020 and July 2021.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Investment funds managing US$ 4 trillion call on Brazil to halt deforestation

  

  Investment funds managing close to US$4 trillion in assets called on Brazil on Tuesday to halt deforestation of the Amazon in an open letter warning that biodiversity loss and carbon emissions pose a “systemic risk” to their portfolios.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Record twelve month deforestation in Brazil's Amazon: area equivalent to Lebanon

  

  Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest was worse than previously reported in 2019, revised government data showed, during the first year of President Jair Bolsonaro, who is keen to develop the forest crucial to curbing global warming.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2020 - 05:34 UTC

  Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Deforestation of more than 10,000 square kilometers in one year

  

  The Brazilian Amazon has never lost so many square kilometers in eleven years. Between August 2018 and July 2019, 10,129 square kilometers of jungle were lost, according to the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  A Brazilian industry COVID-19 hasn't stopped: deforestation in the Amazon

  

  Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose in March, government data showed on Friday, indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 08:00 UTC

  Record deforestation in the Amazon rainforest confirms official Brazilian data

  

  Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data on Monday showed, confirming a sharp increase under the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Wildfires ranging across Brazil's Pantanal wetlands

  

  Wildfires are raging across the Pantanal tropical wetlands in southern Brazil, one of the most biodiversity areas in the world and a major tourist destination, regional authorities said on Thursday.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Polls bash Bolsonaro: 38% say the president is doing “a bad or terrible job”

  

  Brazilians saying that President Jair Bolsonaro is doing a “bad or terrible” job rose to 38% from 33% previously, in the first major poll since the government faced global outcry over its handling of record fires in the Amazon rainforest.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 19:13 UTC

  Brazilian warplanes dumpling water on the Amazon forest, but will it be enough?

  

  Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest, according to a government video.