Deforestation in the Amazon

Aerial views illustrating deforestation and land clearing in the Amazon Rainforest, showing environmental impacts and land use changes.

Gold Mining. Arimu, Guyana

Plot of forest burned for the culture of manioc Brasil

African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation in deforestated area, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

forest destruction in thailand form Aerial view

Brazil, Para, Itaituba, Amazon rainforest, slash and burn, reclamation of pastureland

ESU St. Louis - Chevron Empire Burn - 26-HK-321-35. Zone 2 - After Burn. Hurricane Katrina

Clearing of land for housing development in Charlotte, North Carolina

Aerial of the Mesoamerican archaeological site Cantona, Puebla, Mexico, Central America

Aerial shot, silting the rainforest after mining, Guyana, South America

Sad Hill Cemetery in Burgos Spain. Tourist site, film location where the last sequence of the western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was filmed. Aerial view. Sad Hill Cemetery in Spain. Tourist place

Bushfire - forest in Far North of the Northern Territory after a wildfire. Though trees and soil are still blackened, new sprouts of green are already visible. Northern Territory, Australia. Wild - or bushfires are a rather normal sight in the very dry areas of central and western Australia. A lot of plants; especially gum trees and cycads; are adapted to these conditions and quickly sprout anew. In fact; some of them need the occurance of a bushfire for renewal; which is the case with cycads. T

Aerial view of tropical forest have been destroyed for corn plantation. Nan, North Thailand. Environment, climate change concepts.

Field burned ready for planting manioc. Roca was cleared in 7 yr.-old capoeira. Igarape Ubim, Lago Amana, Amazonas, Brazil, 9-18-12

Succession or encroachment of trees into a clearing

Tropic farm land Plantation farm exploiting a red earth piece of land Copyright: xZoonar.com/YannxPoirierx 4499359

Papaya organic culture and windmill in southern India

Tornado - Lake Martin, Ala. , May 28, 2011 The bark from this pine tree was stripped off after a powerful tornados ripped accross the land. The State Managed park is qualified for PA assistance under category G recreational facilities. Adam DuBrowa/ FEMA. Alabama Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Straight-line Winds. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Heavy pollution coming from a factory in the forest.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - This aerial view combines NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (left) and the proposed 500-acre site for one of the largest solar power plants of its kind. The planned 100-megawatt photovoltaic solar plant would use similar panels to those already built at Kennedy by the SunPower Corp. The energy produced by the proposed facility would be used to provide power to Florida Power and Light customers. Kennedy Center Director Bob Cabana, FPL Vice President and Chief Development Officer Eric Silagy and a SunPower Corp. representative made a joint announcement regarding the new construction during a ceremony held in November 2009 to commission a 1-megawatt solar plant. Included in the announcement were plans to establish a permanent renewable energy research and development center at Exploration Park, Kennedy's new business complex. The dedicated RandD facility proposed for Exploration Park could result in at least 50 high-salary science and engineering positions

The Plantation of Eucalyptus for paper industry with blue sky

Ivory Coast, Korhogo, Aerial view of traditional African village

Plantation palm oil Borneo Sungai Kinabatangan

Cerrado Ecosystem, Brazil

Vintage Photograph. Aerial view of a large tire dump site surrounded by forested area.

The Plantation of Eucalyptus for paper industry with blue sky

Bangladesh, Sundarban, 2021-10-29. Report on board Rubayath and Elizabeth s boat on the Sundarbans, a region made of innumerable arms and channels of the Ganges delta which descend towards the Bay of Bengal. The largest mangrove forest in the world, the region, characteristic of Bengal, has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site has also been recognised as a Ramsar site and biosphere reserve since then. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Bangladesh, Sundarban, le 2021-10-29. Reportage a bord du bateau de Rubayath et Elizabeth sur les Sundarbans, region faite d innombrables bras et canaux du delta du Gange qui descendent vers le golfe du Bengale. Plus grande foret de mangrove du monde, la region, caracteristique du Bengale, a ete classee patrimoine mondial de l UNESCO. Le site est egalement reconnu en tant que site Ramsar et reserve de biosphere depuis. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

View from the airplane to the Okavango delta

Large area of forest cleared for cattle grazing, Pantanal, Brazil

Uprooting of the primeval forest for sweetcorn feelds, Paraguay, South America

Brazil, Para, Itaituba, Sawle Muybu, Village of Mudndururu people, Rio Tapajos

Trees cut by poachers in the PN BokorCambodia

Travel to Nkhanga Rural Health Centre, Zambia ca. 2 March 2017.

EROSION, BRAZIL. When the forest is destroyed the top soil rapidly deteriorates. Thousands of tons of soil are washed away from deforested areas. .

African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation and clear cut for new planting, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Girl in Destroyed Rain Forest

Brazil, Amazonas, Chico Mendes, Br384 Road Into Acre Which Chico Campaigned Against The Construction Of.

MEXICO Yucatan Celestun. Mangrove forest on the Gulf coast killed by pollution..

Deforestation Along Rejang River

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

Aerial view of verdant vegetation contrasting with the scattered buildings under a vast sky, creating a textured landscape, Egbema, Rivers, Nigeria.

Alluvial Gold Mining. Rainforest, Guyana.

Return of tourists to the Dune du Pilat after the July 2022 fire. Compulsory shuttle to get to the site. The area affected by the fire is closed to the public.

Aerial view of a lush green forest meeting a residential area, with a muddy river winding through, Osun-Osogbo, Osun, Nigeria.

VIETNAM - MEKONG DELTA - THE SUSPENSION OF THE NINE DRAGONS. Portrait of the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam and many environmental issues.VIETNAM - DELTA DU MÉKONG - LE SURSIS DES NEUF DRAGONS. Portrait de la région du Delta du Mekong au Vietnam et des nombreuses problématiques environnementales.

Aerial view from a Cessna aircraft, bulldozers to cut down the Chaco forest in a recently cleared area, Salta, Argentina, South America

tree cut in rainforest a big tree has been cut down in the rainforest Copyright: xZoonar.com/PhilxMorleyx 1221018

Stark ring-barked forest, a common landscape in rural Australia where even now remaining fragments of endangered ecosystems such as this former White box grassy woodland is being killed for firewood and then cleared for pasture, less than 01 per cent of this habitat remains in its natural state, Eastern Australia. 01/11/2003

rainforest destruction gold prospectors using water sprays para, amazonas, brazil

African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation to be planted in recently cleared area, Malaysia

Aerial view of a winding road cuts through the landscape, leading towards a cluster of buildings amidst a sea of green, Egbema, Rivers, Nigeria.

Skid roads as evidence of industrial logging in the Appalachian foothills near Fayetteville, WV

Pollution - ESU St. Louis Response - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-254-97. Overflight. Hurricane Katrina

Amazon jungle cleared for farming south of Manaus, Brazil.

Beautiful aerial view to small amazon riverside community

A path in the forest shows the route of the EUGAL pipeline. Hydrogen could be transported via the pipeline in the future, Gruenheide, 16 05 2023

Aerial view of artificial waterholes for livestock watering, Kimberley Region, Western Australia, Australia.

An aerial photograph of the flooded Tana river which is in the Rift Valley area, Joint Task Force Kenya, operation Noble Response. (Duplicate image, see also DMSD0204679 or search 980303M4605W004). Base: Mombasa Country: Kenya (KEN)

Gold mining in rainforest, Guyana

INDIA Environment Erosion. Tree roots exposed by severe soil erosion..

Aerial view from a Cessna aircraft, destroying a forest with bulldozers, the biomass is distributed over the cleared land and then burned, Gran Chaco, Salta, Argentina, South America

Food-producing culture encroaching on forest Sabah Borneo

Ecoguards of Batéké Plateau NP in Gabon

Aerial of landscape with power line.

The results of clear cutting timber in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

Using fire and removing invasive species, a slash pine forest is restored.

Napo River and Quichua Indian House. near Coca (San Franciso de Orellana) Town, Amazon Rain Forest. Ecuador

Aerial view, the original forest of the Gran Chaco is cleared with bulldozers, the biomass is distributed on the cleared areas and then burned, Salta, Argentina, South America

India, Environment, Erosion, Tree Roots Exposed By Severe Soil Erosion.

Fishermen villages on the banks of the White Nile Sudan

River of blood flows from Nyongara slaughterhouse in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

Asia, Indonesia, Sulawesi, Minahasa, Ilo Loi Forest. Track where logs are dragged out of forest

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Guam, U.S. Territory

Rainforest cleared for private use (housing) . Kuranda Range, North Queensland, Australia.

Pollution in rain forest, Sumatra

Plastic waste in the savannah Masai Mara Kenya

BRAZIL Rondonia Highway Building. Aerial view over road construction through virgin rainforest. Brasil deforestation. .

Clearing tropical rainforest, most of Sumatra and lowland Borneo have been either cleared or logged over and now Irian Jaya is being exploited, conservationists worry about forest-dependent species such as the Orangutan and the thousands of other plant and animal species in the forests, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. 01/11/2002

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed 20,000,000 US gallons (80,000,000 L) of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand. The program's goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, depriving guerrillas of cover; another goal was to induce forced draft urbanization, destroying the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, and forcing them to flee to the U.S. dominated cities, thus depriving the guerrillas of their rural support base and food supply. The US began to target food crops in October 1962; in 1965, 42 percent of all herbicide spraying was dedicated to food crops. Rural-to-urban migration rates dramatically increased in South Vietnam, as peasants escaped the destruction and famine in the countryside by fleeing to the U.S.-dominated cities. According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to herbi

Aerial top view green forest tree texture and background, Tropical rainforest Ecosystem ecology healthy environment Texture green tree forest view from above.

Aerial view of vibrant figures scattered across a verdant field, creating a tapestry of life and labor under the open sky, Gaibandha, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh.

Aerial view from a Cessna aircraft, illegally cleared areas with remnants of the original vegetation of the Chaco, Gran Chaco, Salta, Argentina, South America

Aerial view of a sprawling scrapyard with scattered debris and winding dirt paths under a vast sky, Touws River, Western Cape, South Africa.

An aerial photo is taken from a helicopter of one of the project areas for the U.S. Department of State's Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative (EGCI) near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on June 19, 2010.

Land rehabilitation after forestry in KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa.

Caribbean, Cuba, Sancti Spiritus, Trinidad, stubble-burning in the San Luis Valley

In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people,

Slash & Burn (Jhum) cultivation on the hills surrounding an Apatani village.

Grazed and ungrazed semi arid woodland, Australia. Grazing effect in semi arid woodland shown by boundary fence of Curraways National Park (left) with adjoining pastoral farm with sheep and cattle, South West Australia. Where ungrazed there is more vegetation, a shrub layer with soil protection, wildlife habitat, greater biodiversity, compared with the overgrazed side. Overgrazing can lead to loss of vegetation cover, soil erosion by wind and water and desertification .

Top Down over

Beautiful aerial helicopter flight view to Iguazu Falls during flood

Termite Construction in the Australian Outback

Large expansion of olive groves for older generation great expansion of olive groves for older production

LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ISLANDPortrait of the 4000 Islands territory (Si Phan Don) in the extreme south of Laos where the famous Don Sahong Dam is being built.LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ÎLESPortrait du territoire des 4000 îles ( Si Phan Don ) à l'extrème sud du Laos où est en construction le fameux barrage de Don Sahong.

Dried up bones are all that's left of an animal that died on the plains near Kismayo, Somalia. Base: Kismayo Country: Somalia (SOM)

Patjarr, Aboriginal community Gibson Desert, Western Australia

Drying Agave fibers under the sun Ecuador

Aerial view of dense, green forest meets the bustling activity of the Kaligesing goat market, a vibrant contrast between nature and commerce., Purworejo, Central Java, Indonesia.

REFORESTATION, AUSTRALIA. Western Australia, Darling Range, Jarrahdale Mine, vicinity Perth. Reforestation of bauxite mines by Alcoa of Australia. . Topsoil being spread on mined areas. When the bauxite has been removed, the land is reshaped to blend in its surrounding forest. Contour banks, dykes and specially prepared waterways are built to control run-off and soil erosion. Finally, topsoil is spread and seed supplied.

Lapa Rios luxury rainforest eco-lodge sign. Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

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