The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers, Christ the Redeemer towering over tourists, and sunbathers on Copacabana Beach. I would bet that Belém, a city in the northwest of the ...

The Universidade Federal do Amazonas-based research team has developed an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model that utilizes satellite imagery and deep learning techniques to detect wildfires in the ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease ...

For every kilometer of first-cut road, 49.1 kilometers of secondary roads formed in the Brazilian Amazon, 9.8 kilometers in New Guinea, and 4.8 kilometers in the Congo Basin.

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Because the Upper Hoh Rain Forest Road is the only route to the rainforest’s trailheads, its closure could lead to canceled summer plans and disappointed tourists. The Hoh Rain Forest is known ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions ...

Findings, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Remote Sensing, report a 93% success rate when training the model via a dataset of images of Amazon rainforest with, and without ...