With less than two weeks to go before it hosts the COP30 global climate summit, Brazil announced Thursday that forest loss in the Amazon fell by 11.1% compared with the previous year, despite the rainforest experiencing record wildfires.
The Amazon lost 5,796 square kilometers (3,622 square miles) from Aug. 1, 2024, to July 31, the 12-month period that Brazil’s monitoring system uses. This is the third lowest area of loss since measurements began in 1988. The data comes from the National Institute for Space Research, known as INPE, a federal agency.