BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil's federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the ...

Behind palm oil, the fourth biggest driver of deforestation is the demand for paper and other products made from wood. Humans have been clearing trees for thousands of years, even before we ...

According to the Brazilian Federal Police, Bruno Heller is one of Amazon's largest deforesters and relied on legal and ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the "lungs of the Earth," but for years, those lungs have been under siege. Now, there's finally some good news to share. Over the past year, deforestation in the ...

The Amazon rainforest is shrinking due to deforestation, driven by industries like timber and cattle. But what if there was a way to profit from protecting it instead? We explore the concept of ...

For most of his life, he jumped for thrill and emotion, but it was in 2022 that he ventured on one of the most important ...

curid=93353722 The Amazon rainforest is teeming with ... curid=55386790 The Blue-throated Piping Guan is often heard before it’s seen with its distinctive piping calls that echo through the forest. As ...

According to WWF, cattle ranching accounts for around 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. This isn’t just catastrophic for wildlife and biodiversity, but it’s also driving up ...

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest, but it's shrinking. Around 17% of the Amazon has been destroyed, due in large part to deforestation, per Time Magazine. If this rate of deforestation ...

like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently deteriorated, but within only the past two years, these two major ecosystems have deteriorated much faster than ever before. This is ...