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

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

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

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.

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.

The forest's carbon emissions amounted to 0.44 billion metric tons in 2019 and 0.52 billion metric tons in 2020, compared to an annual average of 0.24 billion metric tons from 2010-2018, according ...

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.

But the Amazon forest and its carbon uptake are at risk. Trees are being cleared for soy plantations, and the region’s climate is becoming less forest-friendly. Patrick Meir: ...

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 ...

Brazil experienced historic fires last year, particularly in the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet that ...