Latin America has been the cradle of now ... advances such as the use of drones to monitor deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, the development of apps to encourage more people to continue ...

But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, extreme droughts, and fires, leading to massive deforestation—even ... the kind of biome found south ...

That increase in productivity is why some climate researchers see this approach to farming as a key solution for reducing deforestation in South America ... for saving the Amazon and reducing ...

But development is rapidly depleting the world’s largest tropical rainforest ... It also regulates moisture across South America. About two-thirds of the Amazon lies within Brazil, and ...

If you travel south east from Cali, over the Andes mountains, you drop into the Amazon basin. From there, rainforest ... the main driver of deforestation across Latin America.

The extent of the deforestation ... done to preserve the Amazon. The roughly 2.3 million square miles of the Amazon Rainforest are spread across eight countries in South America.

Scientists warn that deforestation, forest degradation, and climate change could destabilize the Amazon, affecting rainfall patterns and biodiversity across South America. See All Key Ideas The ...

Deforestation ... hectares of land in the Amazon Rainforest. This is nearly the size of Colombia. The Amazon Rainforest is arguably the world’s largest and most significant rainforest. It spans nine ...

Some regions in South America are experiencing many more days with extreme fire conditions, putting some of the continent's most important ecosystems -- such as the Amazon rainforest and the Gran ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said Monday.

They include vast areas of the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal ... Edmar Barros/Associated Press Deforestation is still a big problem in South America. The Cerrado grasslands, in the east ...

Over the last century, the Amazon rainforest, which covers nearly 40 percent of South America, has lost about 20 percent of its area to deforestation, due to the advance of agriculture and cattle ...