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Brazil's Amazon Lost Area the Size of Spain in 40 Years: Study
- Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades, nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday.
- Bruno Ferreira from MapBiomas stated that at a loss of 20 to 25 percent vegetation, the rainforest will cease to sustain itself.
- Satellite images revealed the loss of 49.1 million hectares of rainforest from 1985 to 2024, according to MapBiomas.
- Deforestation has slowed since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in 2023.
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Brazil, with 421 million hectares, lost between 1985 and 2024, 52 million hectares, equivalent to 5.6 million hectares greater than mainland Portugal.
Brazilian Amazon has lost a huge area in four decades, alert the experts, who fear a point of no return for the largest tropical forest in the world Amazonian forest
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Brazil's Amazon lost area the size of Spain in 40 years: study
Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday.
Brazil's Amazonian forest has narrowed by an area as large as Spain for four decades and is approaching a dangerous tipping point, according to surveillance data published on Monday. The Amazon was approaching a "non-reward point" of 20 to 25% vegetation loss during which it "stops maintaining itself as [...]
Monday, September 15, 2025 - 22:09 "A point of no return": the Amazonian forest amputated with an area equivalent to Spain in 40 years By RTL info with AFP The Amazonian forest in Brazil has been amputated in four decades by an area close to that of Spain and is approaching a "point of no return", according to data published on Monday by the Mapbiomas monitoring network. Zen Reading The Amazonian forest in Brazil has been amputated in four decad…
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