Global Deforestation
This section is intended to collect data on the current status of global deforestation. This is accomplished through the utilization of APIs, databases, news sources, MapBuilders, and academic journals.
Global forest loss map
Credits: University of Maryland, department of geographical sciences.
Results from time-series analysis of Landsat images characterizing forest extent and change.
Trees are defined as vegetation taller than 5m in height and are expressed as a percentage per output grid cell as ‘2000 Percent Tree Cover’. ‘Forest Cover Loss’ is defined as a stand-replacement disturbance, or a change from a forest to non-forest state, during the period 2000–2019. ‘Forest Cover Gain’ is defined as the inverse of loss, or a non-forest to forest change entirely within the period 2000–2012. ‘Forest Loss Year’ is a disaggregation of total ‘Forest Loss’ to annual time scales.
Reference 2000 and 2019 imagery are median observations from a set of quality assessment-passed growing season observations.
News List
South Korea to shrink biomass energy subsidies after criticism over link to deforestation
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The South Korean government will reduce subsidies for biomass energy after rising domestic and international criticism of its link to deforestation. Environmental activists generally applauded the reforms but criticized loop... [6514 chars]
B.C. salmon summits uncover concerns of climate, deforestation, volunteer decline
UBC Pacific Salmon dialogues project to produce full report by March
An aging volunteer base on top of climate change and deforestation concerns dominated the early returns of a probe into the state of B.C. salmon.
Researchers provided some key findi... [1716 chars]
From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again
It’s 9am and the sun is already high above a parched Amazon. Not even stray dogs are out on the asphalt in Paragominas today, but Adnan Demachki knows just the retreat. Turning right off state highway PA-125, the former mayor and native of this restl... [10283 chars]
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United States of America US Virgin Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands Canada Mexico, United Mexican States Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Cuba, Republic of Dominican Republic Haiti, Republic of Jamaica Afghanistan Albania, People's So... [4996 chars]
Prabowo’s call to expand oil palm plantations in Indonesia is ‘dangerous’: Green groups
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto described oil palm as a national asset that has become a “strategic material” eyed by many foreign countries. PHOTO: ST FILE
– A call by the Indonesian President to expand oil palm plantations has drawn backlash ... [4273 chars]
Former EU environment chief warns against backsliding on climate crisis
A former EU environment commissioner has warned against backsliding on the protection of nature and the battle against the climate crisis after the bloc decided to delay its landmark deforestation law.
Virginijus Sinkevičius, the Lithuanian MEP and a... [5052 chars]
Drought, fires, deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024
By STEVEN GRATTAN
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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.
A warming climate fed drought th... [6103 chars]
Fires, deforestation and drought hammered the Amazon in 2024
By Steve Grattan | Associated Press
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.
A warming climate f... [6116 chars]
News API sources: NewsCatcher & GNews