Forest

August 9, 2024

Amazon Deforestation Plummets 45.7%: Historic Low in 2024 Under Brazil’s Zero Deforestation Agenda

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon decreased by 45.7 percent between August 2023 and July 2024, marking the largest proportional drop ever recorded for this period, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE)

Isolated Indians in a village located in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Forest

Amazon’s Last Guardians: How Indigenous Communities Defend Earth’s Crucial Rainforest Species Amid Growing Threats

Forest also known as the lung of the earth and a source of so many unique species – again and again, is at risk. However, when the world is plunged into darkness, there is still a ray of light –

September 2, 2024

Amazon’s Largest Deforestation Plot Uncovered: 6,500+ Hectares Cleared by Heller Family

Crime·Forest·Latin America

A family of serial deforesters is allegedly responsible for clearing some of the biggest areas of forest in the Brazilian Amazon for cattle farming.

Amazon Conservation Measures Reduced Deadly Air Pollution by 7%, Preventing 680 Annual Deaths.

Forest·Health·Science

Forest fires ravaged 70,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest in 2019, releasing dangerous levels of PM2.5 particulate matter into the atmosphere. These microscopic particles,

Representative Image. Slash and burn agriculture in the Amazon. Photo Source: Matt Zimmerman (CC BY 2.0)

Environment·Europe·Forest

EU Postpones Deforestation Law to 2025: Billions in Trade and Forest Loss at Stake

A provisional agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union postpones the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) implementation deadline to December 30, 2025 – a 12-month extension from the

Karmactive Staff

December 16, 2024

On the Domingao program premieres the new painting “C a n i n a s A l t u r a s” with 100 Million Native Seeds released precisely at 6,500 Feet over a healthy region for layer and soil winds to do the sowing with exactly 2.5 kilometers north of this photo where the deforestation is.

Activism·Adventure·Conservation·Forest

Amazon Gets 100 Million New Trees: Luigi Cani’s Skydiving Feat Combines 14,000 Jumps’ Expertise With Environmental Action

Brazilian skydiving veteran Luigi Cani executed what he describes as his most nerve-wracking jump yet – not for its technical difficulty, but for its environmental stakes. After 14,000 jumps and 11 world

Rahul Somvanshi

November 30, 2024

Left: Blue Marble 2002. Right: GOES-19 full disk GeoColor image from Aug. 30, 2024. This type of imagery combines data from multiple ABI channels to approximate what the human eye would see from space.

Forest·Latin America·Space

NASA’s GOES-19 Reveals the Amazon’s Decline in 42 Million km² Image of the Americas

Details of the American continent, with its approximately 42 million square kilometers of extension including Argentina’s 2.78 million square kilometers, were never before documented with such luminosity, as photographed by NASA’s GOES-19

Rahul Somvanshi

September 27, 2024