Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024
BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print “The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy director at Amazon Watch, an organization that works to protect the rainforest. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print The United Nations conference on biodiversity — this year known as COP16 — was hosted by Colombia.
Communities in the Amazon struggle amid the second year of a devastating drought
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