Satellite data show a 37% deforestation decrease in the world's largest rainforest last year, the lowest level of Amazon ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

The collapse of a landmark Amazon soy pact will drive at least 1.4 million hectares (3.5 million acres) of extra ...

From January to June, trees were felled across 1,295 square kilometres (500 square miles) -- an area almost twice the size of ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey If deforestation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amazon rainforest. Neil Palmer / CIAT The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, ...

The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Soy Moratorium, published today in the journal Science, shows that tens of millions of hectares of forests are at greater risk of conversion withou ...

The figures come months before Brazil’s presidential election, with Lula promising to end illegal deforestation by 2030.

An illegally lit fire in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Para state — the country has vowed to eliminate illegal deforestation by 2028, two years earlier than a ...

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 ...

COP30 is expected to hold talks on “ending deforestation” after developers carved a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to facilitate attendees. The massive United ...