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

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

A vast portion of the Amazon rainforest has been cleared to build ... Many argue that the deforestation contradicts the very purpose of the climate summit, according to the BBC.

The Amazon rainforest, crucial for the global ecosystem, is threatened by mass deforestation for agricultural purposes. As a ...