How does deforestation impact water cycles and river systems?

Aug 25, 2019 ... According to National Geographic, the Amazon has already lost around 17 percent over the past 50 years. The full devastation of these fires won' ... Jan 18, 2025 ... Since then, it is estimated that 13 percent has been lost due to deforestation, bringing the total size of the rainforest to about 560 million ... Cattle ranching accounts for 80% of current deforestation throughout the Amazon. ... Brazil has 88% of the Amazon herd, followed by Peru and Bolivia. While ... ... were serving meat likely fed soy grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. After ... percent of the soy produced in the Amazon region. This way, the Soy ... Yet, in 2020, ninety percent of the Guató tribes' land in Brazil has been destroyed, obliterating their crops and wild plants, to give just one example. Overall ... 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 ... Oct 13, 2023 ... In just 50 years, almost 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. Scientists warn that we're dangerously close to the ... Oil palm plantations currently cover more than 27 million hectares of the Earth's surface. Forests and human settlements have been destroyed and replaced by “ ... Jul 2, 2019 ... I really hope that either mankind has totally destroyed itself before that, or that we change tack... ... So... the Amazon rainforest has been 100 ... Much of the large intact forest landscapes have already been cut down, 72% in Indonesia and 60% in Papua New Guinea. • 8 percent are in Africa. Africa has lost ...