The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires ...

A sharp decline in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon—partially offset by widespread forest fires—suggests the overall rate of loss may be lower. This analysis explores key storylines ...

Under Brazil's forestry rules, Amazon landowners can clear up to 20% of their property. But an early 2000s deforestation surge sparked calls for action by companies that feared a wider ban.

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has ...

Though some progress has been made in recent years to slow deforestation, especially in Brazil and Colombia ... Gabriel Funari, head of the Amazon Observatory of Illicit Economies for Global ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Paraguayan authorities arrested 26 people in a crackdown on suspected illegal deforestation along the country’s border with Brazil and Argentina, Interpol announced Monday.

“There are more cases in areas with recent deforestation,” says Navarro ... It appears that the current outbreak in the Brazilian Amazon coincides with the spread of a new reassorted lineage ...

Fighting deforestation in South America “means fighting sophisticated transnational organized crime networks,” she added. Gabriel Funari, head of the Amazon ... as one of Brazil’s largest ...