Illegal deforestation is wiping out a significant portion of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. According to a report by Mongabay, satellite images have recently revealed that deforestation around ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

The Leonardo DiCaprio, Fisher Stevens-produced doc 'We Are Guardians,' about efforts to save the Brazilian Rainforest, has ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to ease travel for attendees.

FILE - Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul ... Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise of economic development.