Illegal deforestation is wiping out a significant portion of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. According to a report by Mongabay, satellite images have recently revealed that deforestation around ...

PRODES is the first and oldest initiative to use satellite imaging to monitor deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, home to the largest tropical forest on the planet. The data collected by the ...

At COP16 in Cali, WWF, in collaboration with the Chalmers University of Technology, Trase, and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), launched an eye-opening report, “Uncovering Sub-Regional ...

After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by ... according to government satellite data released Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File ...

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 ...

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. A warming climate fed ...

A federal court in Brazil ordered a rancher to pay more than $50 million for destroying part of the Amazon rainforest ... the environment through illegal deforestation. The civil case against ...