Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in eight years during the most recent monitoring period, according to new data from the Brazilian Human and Environment Amazon Institute, ...

Drug traffickers, illegal miners and criminal syndicates are rapidly expanding across the Amazon, pushing the rainforest closer to ecological collapse.

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in ...