Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s banks will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit beginning on Wednesday in the South American country.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Activists protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October in front of a mural painted with ashes from the fires ravaging the country. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the ...

The Amazon rainforest is widely considered to be one of the most amazing ecosystems on the planet. With millions of different plants, animals, insects, fungi, and other things living here (many of ...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil more than doubled in January compared with the previous year, according to official data published Friday. More than 280 square kilometers (110 square ...

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the ...

This NASA image from August 20 shows the cross country smoke resulting from the wildfires. Wildfires are currently burning so intensely in the Amazon rainforest that smoke from the blaze has covered ...

After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world's largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's government reported on Thursday a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a ...