Andean glacier melting could be enhanced due to Amazon fires

According to a study in Scientific Reports, the melting of tropical glaciers in the Andes may increase due to the burning of the rainforest in southwestern Amazonia.

Scientists observed that black carbon from biomass burning can be transported to tropical Andean glaciers by the wind. On...

A new study attributes the finding of black carbon in the Amazon river to recent forest burning.

A team of an international group of researchers suggests that most of the black carbon found in Amazon river is young and therefore could be a result of the recent amazon forest fires. 

This black carbon is a by-product of incomplete combustion process of vegetation. They are relea...

Amazon observes the highest deforestation since 2008

Brazil has witnessed the highest rate of deforestation in the last one year. It was increased by 29%. It was the highest rate of deforestation since 2008.

The data observation was revealed by National Institute for Space Research (NISR); Space agency of Brazil. Between August 2018 to Ju...

The Fires of the Amazon

The recent fire in the Amazon was a topic that the world debated over. Until the fire raged there was a photograph that was doing its round of the last man in the Amazon, a man untouched by the civilized world outside. The fires of the Amazon was a topic of discussion of the G 7 Summit too. The G 7 ...