Lima, Dec 2 (EFE).- The Amazon rainforest lost 9.7 percent of its native vegetation between 1985 and 2021, a period in which tropical glaciers retreated by 46 percent and mining activity increased by more than 1,100 percent in the planet’s green lung, according to figures from the MapBiomas Amazonia initiative. Around 50 million hectares (193,000 …
Brazil s Ministry of Agriculture estimated this week 1 million hectares per year will suffer deforestation until the year 2030, despite Vice President Hamilton Mourão s announcement Monday that plans to avoid it would be announced at the upcoming 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-26) in Glasgow.