By Rhett A. Butler Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 30.6% over the past year, reaching the lowest level of ...

According to official monitoring, Amazon rainforest loss in Brazil dropped by one-third compared to the previous year, ...

An archaeologist working in South America says he has not seen a blue sky for months - because vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest have been on fire since August. Researchers have, in the past ...

Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, causing less harm.

A report suggests that further degradation of the Amazon could turn one of the world’s most important carbon sinks into a ...

The Brazilian government said Thursday that forest loss in its Amazon region fell more than 30 percent compared to the year ...

BRASILIA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in the 12 months through July compared to the same ...

The researchers warned that forests, and all the carbon they store, are increasingly vulnerable to fire. Unlike wildfire in ...