Human activity degraded more than a third of remaining Amazon forest: Study
The Amazon rainforest has been degraded to a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of the remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study. Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos The study shows that up to 38 per cent of the remaining Amazon forest area - equivalent to ten times the size of the UK - has been affected by some form of human disturbance, causing carbon emissions equivalent to or greater than those from deforestation. The paper was led by an international team of 35 scientists and researchers, from institutions such as Brazil’s University of Campinas (Unicamp), the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and the UK’s Lancaster University, it said. Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos Videos The work is the result of the AIMES (Analy