As Brazil prepares to host COP30, construction of a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest has sparked criticism ...

How to Save the Amazon, which explores deforestation and degradation in the world’s largest rain forest, was published in ...

Map showing total forest loss in the original Amazon forest biome. An estimated 13.2% has been lost due to deforestation and other causes. Data from Amazon Conservation Association and MAAP.

In the southern Amazon forest, in a large Indigenous territory in the municipality of Juína, discontent was spreading among the Cinta Larga people.

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, pictured in 2020. ... Some 25,000 square miles of forest was destroyed in 2022 — an area twice the size of Belgium.

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

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Key to halting forest loss, Vargas added, is support for Indigenous people, who are recognised as the best forest protectors and safeguard around 80% of the planet’s biodiversity. Kátia Silene ...

A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered intense protests and exposed deep rifts among residents ...

Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a landmark deal signed two decades ago aimed at slowing deforestation.