In drought-hit Amazon, road paving fears grow as rivers run dry eco-business.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eco-business.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Unseen and Unregulated: 'Ghost' Roads Carve Up Asia-Pacific Tropical Forests goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers have found over a million kilometers of roads that don't show up on official maps. These 'ghost roads' are often used by smugglers and poachers to access pristine forests.
Roads are being built at an unprecedented rate across the globe. Some 25 million kilometers (15.5 million miles) of paved roads are expected to be built in just the four decades leading up to 2050 enough to wrap around the equator more than 600 times. But much of this construction is happening under the […]
The state of Amazonas, the largest in Brazil, recorded 3,181 fires from Oct. 1-23, an all-time record for this month, according to monitoring by Brazil’s space agency, INPE.