# deforestation

Stories tagged: deforestation

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🇧🇷 Brazil

Gold Mining in the Amazon Wipes Out Dung Beetle Populations

Gold mining in the Amazon does more than scar the landscape. It also wipes out the insects that keep the forest floor clean. A new study from Brazil shows that dung beetle communities collapse in areas where miners have...

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 1w ago

Countries covering deforestation

🇧🇷 Brazil 2 🌍 Ecuador 1 🇮🇩 Indonesia 1 🇺🇸 United States 1

Scientists link deforestation patterns to future Ebola outbreaks

A growing body of research suggests that the next Ebola outbreak may be forecast not by a patient's fever, but

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 1w ago

🇧🇷 Brazil

Amazon frogs vanishing before scientists can name them

The Amazon is losing frog species faster than scientists can find them. In Brazil, researchers estimate that d

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 4w ago

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Farming drives most tropical peatland loss in Indonesia, Peru and DRC

Farming, not logging or mining, is now the single biggest reason tropical peatlands are disappearing in Indone

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 4w ago

🌍 Ecuador

Climate change could erase most of South America's cloud forests

Up to 80 percent of South America's cloud forests could vanish by the end of this century. That is the stark f

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 5w ago