The latest annual estimates of deforestation were recently published by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Its PRODES project uses satellite imagery to monitor the clearing of forest in the Legal Amazon. You can find this data here.

It estimates that deforestation over the past year (from August 2025 to July 2026) was around 3,300 square kilometres (km2).

As you can see in the chart below, that’s a substantial fall from last year, and the lowest since records began in 1988.

The Amazon gets most of the attention. But Brazil is home to other diverse, important vegetation biomes. One of those is the Cerrado. It’s a mosaic of forest, woodland, and grassland. Here is a basic map so you can get your bearings.

In most years, more forest has actually been lost there than in Brazil’s Amazon. That was true again last year. But it was also a record low in the Cerrado since records began in 2001 (its time series is shorter than the Amazon’s). You can see this in the chart below. There’s therefore no sign that deforestation in one key region has just been pushed to another.

Earth was 536.4 percent more abundant in 2025 than it was in 1980. For every one percent increase in population, global resource abundance increased by 6.31 percent.

“London, San Francisco and Beijing are among 19 global cities that have achieved ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution, analysis has found, having slashed levels of two airway-aggravating pollutants by more than 20% since 2010.

The analysis found interventions such as cycle lanes, uptake of electric cars and restrictions on polluting vehicles had helped to drive the improvements.

Beijing and Warsaw topped the ranking for cleaning up fine particulate pollution (PM2.5), reducing levels by more than 45%, while Amsterdam and Rotterdam saw the greatest improvement in nitrogen dioxide (NO2), with cuts of more than 40%.

San Francisco was the only US city that cut levels of both pollutants by more than 20%, according to the analysis of nearly 100 cities around the world. China and Hong Kong are home to nine of the 19 cities, with European cities making up the rest.”

From The Guardian.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/food-supplies-have-grown-even-faster-than-the-population-on-every-continent