The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

COP30, which will be held in Belém, Brazil, has been hit by revelations that a new road to service the conference is slicing ...

New research shows climate change may be overloading the Amazon's tree canopy, disrupting photosynthesis and signaling forest ...

By André Schröder Brazil is a country shaped by highways. The transportation model adopted by President Juscelino Kubitschek ...

Trump’s Trade War Could Turbocharge Deforestation in the Amazon Massive tariffs on China will drive up soybean production in Brazil at the rainforest’s expense. By Sarah Sax ...

“The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires ...

Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area destroyed reached 8,174 square kilometers (3,156 square miles).