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

Destruction of the world’s largest tropical rainforest drops significantly ... Note: The number released for January 2020 includes deforestation total through the 30th of that month.

Brazil's environment minister Edson Duarte said in a statement that illegal logging was the main factor behind the increase in deforestation ... Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation ... Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction ...

Every breath we take is linked to this vital rainforest which plays a critical role in maintaining global oxygen levels ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over ... It was the worst level of deforestation since 2008, heaping further pressure on the environmental policy of Bolsonaro ...

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 ...

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

In June 2020, fires in the Brazilian Amazon reached their highest levels in 13 years ... as a result of illegal deforestation, where people chop down areas of the rainforest for agricultural ...

As mass burnings and deforestation continue in the Amazon rainforest, many of the thousands ... putting a major source of the world's oxygen under extreme stress. A top Brazilian official says ...

Corporations have failed to stop deforestation. Can that change in time to save the Amazon rainforest? The situation is dire now, but there are also signs that businesses are beginning to find ...