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Amazon loses 10% of its vegetation in nearly four decades

Por: WPLG Local 10 Nation December 02, 2022

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RIO DE JANEIRO – The Amazon region has lost 10% of its native vegetation, mostly tropical rainforest, in almost four decades, an area roughly the size of Texas, a new report says. From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometers (190,000 square miles) to 1,250,000 square kilometers (482,000 square miles), unprecedented destruction in the Amazon, according to the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental... + full article



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