How can the principles of sustainable infrastructure development be applied to minimize the ecological footprint of new construction projects in the Amazon region, such as roads, bridges, and buildings?

Mar 7, 2022 ... We find that more than three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing resilience since the early 2000s, consistent with the approach to a critical ... Dec 19, 2020 ... ... were cleared––an area about the size of the island of Hawaii. “The media has been showing that the Amazon has been destroyed and [that] we ... ” It's estimated that between 17 and 20 percent of the Amazon has been destroyed over the past fifty years, and some scientists believe that the tipping ... Between 17 and 20 percent of the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, has been destroyed over the past fifty years. The majority of deforestation has ... Jul 14, 2021 ... The study area, which represents about 20 percent of the Amazon basin, has lost 30 percent of its rainforest ... percent of the forest had been ... Dec 8, 2020 ... The annual area lost tripled from 2015 to 2018,” found the study, noting that in 2018 alone, 31,269sq km of forest were destroyed across the ... The world's first complete historical and current overview reveals that two thirds of the tropical rainforest on Earth are gone or degraded. May 12, 2023 ... It is estimated that over 20% of global rainforests have already been destroyed ... Deforestation has been a hot topic for quite some time now, ... Mar 17, 2025 ... It's estimated that roughly 20 percent of the Amazon Rainforest has disappeared during the past 50 years. ... There's been a lot of damage ... Dec 2, 2022 ... Brazil, which holds about two-thirds of the Amazon, also leads the destruction. In almost four decades, 19% of its rainforest has been ...