Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...

Fire has overtaken logging as the Amazon’s main driver of deforestation for the first time. As drought and heat intensify, ...

Illegal loggers ambushed a group of Indigenous forest guards in Brazil’s Amazon, killing one and injuring another, authorities said on Saturday. A logger also died in the attack on Friday night in ...

To combat ongoing destruction in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil announced a plan Tuesday to dramatically expand selective logging to an area the size of Costa Rica over the next two years. In Brazil, ...

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the ...

Fires in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest surge each year in September, the tail end of the dry season, a ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /CNW/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build sustainable ...

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's Amazon deforestation in 2021 surged to the highest level in 15 years, according to official government statistics. BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian environmental ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...

Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an Indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil ...