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

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

This represented a 79% increase in areas burned compared to2023. The Amazon rainforest bore the brunt, accounting for 58% of ...

Mato Grosso is Brazil's top grains producer The destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest level in a decade this year, government data released on Friday showed, driven by ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year.

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

an organisation that works to protect rainforest ecosystems in the Amazon. Maldonado’s work in the Colombia-Peru-Brazil tri-border region of the Amazon has taken her into dangerous territories ...

FILE - Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul National Park, seen in the background near Chambira community, in Peru's Amazon, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) ...

A legal reversal and unconstitutional amendments Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil ... Legal experts say this is the most dangerous part.