UC professor Tomasz Stepinski’s land-use map shows changing landscapes in North and South America. White indicates little or no change. Darker shades indicate the highest rate of change in each category. Forest loss was the most noticeable category in Central and South America. Graphic/Tomasz Stepinski/UC
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- Watch Now: Is coffee causing deforestation?on April 12, 2021 at 1:30 pm
We all love a cup of coffee in the mornings, but a recent study has found that Western consumption of coffee can cause deforestation of approximately four trees a year. Leading environmental experts ...
- Brazil's Amazon deforestation data mixed ahead of Biden Earth Day summiton April 9, 2021 at 4:07 pm
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest declined in the first quarter, preliminary government data showed, but the drop may be due mostly to more intense cloud cover this year, and experts ...
- Brazil's Amazon deforestation data mixed ahead of Biden Earth Day summiton April 9, 2021 at 2:11 pm
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest declined in the first quarter, preliminary government data showed, but the drop may be due mostly to more intense cloud cover this year, and experts point ...
- Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Yearon April 8, 2021 at 1:10 pm
Last year was a bad one around the world—but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, ...
- Amazon deforestation rose 17% in 'dire' 2020, data showson April 8, 2021 at 7:42 am
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deforestation in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and logging causing forested areas ...
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- Troy Williams: Is Fayetteville a safe place to live? Former mayor says May 30 riots a tipping pointon April 10, 2021 at 4:01 am
Since the mid-1970s, I had lived off Ramsey Street near Pine Forest High School and had never experienced ... Former Mayor Tony Chavonne said the tipping point for him was the night of May 30 of last ...
- 'The Tipping Point': Amazon Deforestation Rose 17 Per Cent In 2020, Data Showson April 8, 2021 at 7:04 am
Massive deforestation in the majority of hotspots in 2020 occurred in Brazilian Amazon with the highest primary forest loss in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. “The deforestation ...
- Tipping Points In The Climate System: The Worst Kind Of Positive Feedbackon April 5, 2021 at 5:00 pm
There is significant worry that a tipping point could be reached in which there ... creating further fires due to the harsh conditions. Forest die-offs have their own consequences, too.
- Speaker discusses Amazonian dark earth, Xinguano indigenous historyon April 5, 2021 at 7:31 am
The Grand Valley State University’s Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program along with the Department of Geography and Sustainable Planning invited Morgan Schmidt, geographer, archaeologist, and ...
- Lily Cole: ‘People wouldn’t eat meat if they knew it caused deforestation’on April 4, 2021 at 9:11 am
Scientists now warn the forest is approaching a ‘tipping point’ that would see it turn from rainforest into savannah. Cole made her name as a runway model for some of the world’s most famous fashion ...